How to dry wet tumbled brass

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I recently got a wet tumbler and don’t really have a handle on how to dry the cases. I am currently dumping the cases spread out on a table and blowing a fan over them but this takes a couple of days to completely get rid of the moisture.

Any other suggestions?
 
I bought a cheap food dehydrator off of kijiji and use it for about 4 hours or so. Brass comes out dry and warm.
 
ChiliDawg said:
I recently got a wet tumbler and don’t really have a handle on how to dry the cases. I am currently dumping the cases spread out on a table and blowing a fan over them but this takes a couple of days to completely get rid of the moisture.

Any other suggestions?
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Oven. 250F. 30 minutes. Done.
 
Dump the cases onto a cookie pan and put them in the oven at 225 F for five minutes. Then take them out to cool and dry.

Some folks put the cases into an old onion sack to shake up a get the water out of the inside before putting them in the oven.

Bottle neck cases are the most difficult to get the water out of, especially if you have large quantities.
 
People use so many dumb methods that are expensive and take a long time and only do a small quantity at a time, simple is smart you can even use those toaster ovens if you have a crazy wife lol, dollar store has the metal baskets fill them up and throw I. The oven as stated above 225f
The trick is 15 minutes and put a small wooden or w.e. Wedge in the door ( a pencil is perfect size) that way the moister can escape and speeding up the process. And other method including screen door mesh and leaving outside is so much work and takes way to much time, and leaves water spots, the oven method doesn’t ( dry the water on the brass persay) and leave water spots like every other method, with the small wedge in the door it lets the water precipitate leaving no water spots, the pencil as a wedge in the door is key to quick and perfect brass drying, also just a tip do not wet tumble all you’re brass with pins, go threw you’re range bras take the 5 minutes to pick out the very dirty cases and wet media tumble those with pins, the decent to good brass just wet tumble same process as normal just add some sea salt and vinigar and tumble.
 
QUATTROISKING said:
People use so many dumb methods that are expensive and take a long time and only do a small quantity at a time, simple is smart you can even use those toaster ovens if you have a crazy wife lol, dollar store has the metal baskets fill them up and throw I. The oven as stated above 225f
The trick is 15 minutes and put a small wooden or w.e. Wedge in the door ( a pencil is perfect size) that way the moister can escape and speeding up the process. And other method including screen door mesh and leaving outside is so much work and takes way to much time, and leaves water spots, the oven method doesn’t ( dry the water on the brass persay) and leave water spots like every other method, with the small wedge in the door it lets the water precipitate leaving no water spots, the pencil as a wedge in the door is key to quick and perfect brass drying, also just a tip do not wet tumble all you’re brass with pins, go threw you’re range bras take the 5 minutes to pick out the very dirty cases and wet media tumble those with pins, the decent to good brass just wet tumble same process as normal just add some sea salt and vinigar and tumble.
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what is the concern about putting pins in every time?
 
Annealing after wet tumbling solves the problem of moisture in the cases . However if you do not anneal , the food dehydrator is a good alternative to dry the cases.
 
For pistol brass, I throw them on a beach towel, fold over then roll it around a bit, them I just stick them back into the plastic trays from the ammo boxes, not the solid ones ;) , then leave them on the furnace floor vents overnight.
 
I spin them in a old salad spinner. Gets them pretty dry, towel them off and then lay them on a homemade drying screen.

In summer, I leave them out in the hot sun on the drying screen.
 
I wash mine on a nice hot day, then let it air dry in the sun for a few hours. In the winter I just spread it out on a towel and let it dry in the basement for a few days.
 
ChiliDawg said:
I recently got a wet tumbler and don’t really have a handle on how to dry the cases. I am currently dumping the cases spread out on a table and blowing a fan over them but this takes a couple of days to completely get rid of the moisture.

Any other suggestions?
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I do this... see nothing wrong with it. When I first got my wet SS tumbler, I wondered about that myself. Then I realised there was no point on spending money (and taking up space in my workshop) on something like this....I just do a final rinse in distilled water and let patience do the rest.
 
It’s just not nessisary and allows you to clean more brass, with the method I posted it will clean the brass very well like new the only need to wet tumble is to get extreamly stained brass back to new, just remember pins are the same context as sand paper.
 
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