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What about the oven at a very low setting?
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Do you really want to risk cross contamination of your Prime rib roast with range pick up brass stuff?
Even if that was ok, I don’t want to walk into the house dressed in soiled reloading clothes and start touching stuff in the kitchen. I have a folding plastic table out back, every thing is there and I just pour the water into a little dirt plot, the separator is there right next to the dehydrator. It’s nice set up. Last edited by MarikinaMan; 05-16-2020 at 11:50 AM.. |
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As long as the surface(s) are exposed to it, a good dry air flow is more efficient/faster than low heat to remove H2O
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I use the Frankford Arsenal brass dryer which I believe is a rebranded food dehydrator. I run large batches of brass when I prep. I usually leave it running overnight and they are definitely dry in the morning. There is a difference in dry time when you don’t de-cap before running them through your wet cleaning method. De-capped cases will be dry within an hour, but cases with primers take a couple hours or longer to dry out the trapped water in the spent primer and primer pocket.
FYI: I pat my cases with a towel before they go into the brass dryer. This helps with water spots and speeds up dry time. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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OP, I run my dehydrator at 70 degrees C (158F) for an hour, because that time is easiest to set, and the temp is high as the unit goes. Brass is generally dry at 30 minutes. I have frames that hold cases mouth-down though; if you're laying bottleneck brass on a rack, you may get water pooled inside, which will need time to be evaporated. So the answer to your question is "until it's dry" (meaning you have to figure out what works for you and your process.) |
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I use our old toaster oven I commandeered from the kitchen for both powdercoating cast boolits and brass drying. Run it nearly as low as it goes and give it an hour. No rush.
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I kinda wish I had a bigger wet tumbler. I could cut down the process to half the time, if I didnt have to wait on the wet tumbler. |
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You just need to get to 212 F and the water will evaporate.
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I bought a rubber welcome mat from HD. It's "spikey" and black rubber. Anyway, I put it on a patio table in my backyard. When my brass is cleaned, I try and get as many of the pins off it as I can (in a rotary media seperator, filled with water), then I dump the water and spin it around again to get more pins out and to get as much water as I can dumped out of the cases, then I just pour all the brass, pins, water that's in teh media basket onto the welcome mat and leave it. The sun and wind dries it up and the pins, once dry will fall onto the mat between the spikey parts. Yes, it takes a day, but I have a lot of brass ready to load, and I have this brass that's clean and drying so I'm in no rush.
Part of the key is to be such a good scrounger that you always have a lot of brass ready to load when you want so you're not waiting on clean brass and then you can clean at your leisure.
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I've heard of people using an electric cement mixer as a wet tumbler. Harbor Freight has a 1.25 cu ft mixer for $169. Get a 20% (or more) coupon, and let her rip.
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My old dry regimen was the same hot ball and a 9x12 drop cloth. I really don’t like bending down and kneeling. It’s not worth throwing my back. A free dehydrator was just the ticket. If I knew how well these things worked, I’d have bought one myself
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This entire thread is gay in the extreme.
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OK. I'll bite. Why are you 'drying' cases in the first place?
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I made square trays with pvc and put 1/4 inch space wire mesh across them. Stacked them and put a box fan on top blowing down, in the garage. A food dehydrator is sort of the model for this but I am not using this setup to make jerky. Brass drying is its sole purpose in life.
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I use that a lot when it’s warm and sunny. But sometimes I’m cleaning brass on cloudy days or I to the night and want to get them dry so I can put them in the lidded buckets I store clean brass in. If I didn’t powdercoat bullets I’d probably just use the sun solely. But when you got it why not? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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How much time to dry brass in a dehydrator?
I not only do my brass, but cast bullets once water dropped. I put the Frankford Arsenal dryer on low and let it run about 4 hours.
I do wash my brass and lead in RO water before drying to have zero water spots. No impurities in the water will leave you with zero water spots. The reason I dry my lead is to powder coat ASAP. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Last edited by McGuiver; 05-24-2020 at 7:22 AM.. |
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Nothing against you guys drying your brass like you're making jerky but I like to keep it simple with as few steps as possible.
I wet tumble about 800-1000 cases a week and from start to ready to load takes about one hour. De-prime first. After wet tumbling for 30-40 minutes I rinse and drain off the excess water, then toss in a few old rags about the size of washcloths and tumble again for 10 minutes. After that I spread the brass out on a towel and run a heat gun over them for 2-3 minutes. Once they're cool to the touch they're ready to load. If I don't plan on reloading them that day I'll just leave them on the towel without using the heat gun and they're completely dry by the next day. |
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So over this if I can avoid it. Last edited by MarikinaMan; 05-19-2020 at 10:14 AM.. |
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Looks like you brought out the jack***es with this thread.
I use 2 methods. On hot summer days (most of the year), I'll lay out my brass on top of a towel to air dry for a 2-3 hours. But when it's not hot or sunny, I'll use a single purpose food dehydrator. It cost me $20 and typically takes around 2 hours to dry the brass. I'm surprised reloaders on calguns don't take drying their brass more seriously. That last thing you want is a wet primer pocket wetting your powder and causing a squib load. But you do you ya'll. I ain't shooting your crap anyways. Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk |
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Comparatively, my brass dries in the dehydrator in 1 hour. On my garage floor with a fan, about 2 days. I havent spread them out in the sun as there is too much dust in my backyard that will get to the brass. Dillon dies are expensive, so didnt want to risk that. And yeah, I don't get people who will come into a thread theyre not interested in and start saying douchey things. Ive moved on though. I dont even see the perp anymore LoL |
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I'm certainly not criticizing anyone for drying their brass in ovens or dehydrators, just showing my method to save time. With casting, powder-coating, reloading and shooting twice a week I have to save time where I can. Processing brass by the way is the quickest of my processes. It's the lead processing that's a PITA. I shoot between 15-20 pounds of lead a week and always try to mine more than I shoot to stay ahead of the demand. |
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You obviously aint had my gunpowder infused dry prime rib rub... Be careful with temps and plastic shelves in dehydrators with brass cases. Actually, if it is the HF brand with a heating element and no fan then be careful. It will melt down and give you a mess.
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Toaster oven
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I live in an apartment without a backyard or patio, so I don't have the option to lay brass out in the sun. Food dehydrators are more expensive than cheap toaster ovens, so I went the toaster oven route. The timer does 30 minutes max, so I "toast" my brass for 30 minutes at 250 degrees. Lower temps won't completely dry the brass within 30 minutes, and 250 degrees is perfectly safe for the brass. |
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Does 500 BMG cases in 2 hours. |
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Don't even need that. If you did, the streets would be perpetually flooded.
Higher temps will evaporate water faster, but water will also evaporate at room temperature. |
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