Drying brass after tumbling

[abunaitoo]

How do you guys dry the brass after tumbling????
I've been letting the sun do it.
Not much sun the last few days, so taking extra long to dry.

I was thinking of making a blow dryer.
A 5gal metal drum, or bucket, with a blower, blowing air from the side, up through the drum.
A colander on top to hold the brass.
Might even put a hot plate in the drum for hot air.

[bustermchooter]

I use a food dehydrator


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[JimB..]

I deprime first, then dry on a towel with a fan if it’s a large batch, or in a dehydrator if it’s a small batch.

[XDROB]

Usally lay my brass spread out on a old towel. Let it dry over night. I don't do cement mixer batches.

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[JM7.7x58]

I pre-dry with a thrift store salad spinner. Then if the sun isn't out (and the wife isn't home) the brass go into the convection oven at 170° Fahrenheit for 20 minutes. I use thrift store cake pans that are only used for drying and sorting brass. I've got about 4 bucks invested into this setup.

[Winger Ed.]

I've done them in the oven in years past.

Now days, I layout a few hundred on a towel outside and come back in a day or two.

[Paper Puncher]

Put them on a towel and run a blow dryer over them if in a hurry.

[RP]

Sun or the oven most of the time I also put them in the vib type with walnut and run it letting it soak up the water.

[Walks]

I've got a board with 200 finishing nails in it.
Just stick a case on each nail and blow out each primer pocket with canned air. I tried my air compressor, it blew the case past my head and into the neghbors yard.
Then leave it out in the CALIF Sun.

Kinda slow, but then so am I.

[farmerjim]

Shake on a sieve, then rocked back and forth on a large towel like a hammock, then 20 min in a convection oven at 200.

[bdicki]

The wifes hair dryer.

[georgerkahn]

Albeit I was lucky to chance upon one at twenty dollars less than MidwayUSA's current price -- https://www.midwayusa.com/product/10...es-brass-dryer -- I bought the Frankord dryer primarily to use a gift certificate I was presented. Initially -- e.g., upon opening the box -- I was quite UN-impressed -- it seeming to be quite chincy. However -- I think I'm on my sixth year or so, and many, many thousands of cases dried -- and it never failed. My only criticism is it has an adjustable heating element which, from factory, cannot be turned off. It took me a very short effort to insert a small toggle switch in circuit, so I now may choose to run fan sans heat. I also bought a (Home Depot) timer switch, which I have unit plugged into -- so I may load it with brass from pin tumbler, set timer for four hours, and come back to DRY cases.
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[725]

After washing the de-preimed brass, I rub them in a kitchen towel, and either stand them on a nail board and get back to them in a few days (sooner if left in the sun) or, lay them out on a cookie sheet and bake them in the oven for 20 minutes @180 degrees. I've come to really liking the wash with dish soap & "Lemi-Shine".

[dale2242]

On a dark towel in the sun on the sidewalk in the summer.
In the dehydrator in the not so sunny days....dale

[Bayou52]

To get the best finish on wet tumbled brass, it's critical to quickly remove all surface water/moisture. Otherwise, water spots will set in and ruin the finish.

After separating the pins and removing the water from the rotary media separator, I throw a dry towel into the squirrel cage with the wet brass and agitate back and forth for about 30 seconds. Repeat with a second dry towel, and all surface moisture is gone and absorbed into the towels.

Let the brass stand exposed to open air for 30-60 minutes, and the primer pockets and case insides are dry, too.

That's it - no fans, dryers or ovens needed...

Bayou52

[Metrobluing]

Lately I have been running the wet tumbled brass thru an annealing machine. I will shake off the excess water first then the machine does the rest. Two birds, one stone.

[robg]

Hang them in a bag over a radiator for a couple of days.don't get many hot days here .when we do I've other things to do.

[MrWolf]

I use a food dehydrator


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Same here. Set it around 100 degrees if I remember right then let it run overnight.

[TNsailorman]

I had an old dehydrator left over from many years ago and it was not getting any use so I started using it for a brass dryer. Works excellently. james

[kevin c]

Like Bayou 52, I dislike water spots ( thought honestly it's just a cosmetic flaw).

I spin the just wet tumbled brass in a media separator to remove most of the excess water, then use a towel hammock to get most of the rest. After that the brass is spread over cloth in the sun until dry.

When it's wet, cold or overcast I'll dump the towelled brass on a wire mesh screen and set that over a floor heating vent at home.

ETA: I didn't think that there was such a thing as "not much sun" in Hawaii...