Drying Brass

[five.five-six]

DAMMM....your wifes hair dryer cost more than my wifes car!!

Same

Woman has her priorities.

Besides, she only leaves the kitchen to go to the store anyways. No need for a fancy car for that.

[longrange1]

Same

Woman has her priorities.

Besides, she only leaves the kitchen to go to the store anyways. No need for a fancy car for that.

LOL now thats funny...and now mine dont like you or me.

[MrElectric03]

Well that's the one thing I miss about CA. I never dries my brass in an oven or anything. I'd wet tumble, then tumble in a towel a bit and set it in front of a fan for a few hours and done. Now I am checking yard sales for good size used dehydrators, I don't think the HF is big enough without doing many batches for the amount I tumble.

[03fatboy]

Drying Brass

I simply towel dry and lay it outside in the sun. I don't accelerate drying relative to needing it for reloading the same day.

[bazineta]

I use the FA one. It's simple and works well; holds about 800 5.56 cases and they're done in an hour.

[Sapperforward]

I roll them in a towel (90% dry) and than spread them out on retired cookie sheets and place them on a table in the backyard in the sun for the day. This method works better in the summer than the winter.

I tried the oven method but was worried that my lowest setting would be too high so I stopped.

I'm looking into a food dehydrator for future use.

[SixPointEight]

I roll them in a towel (90% dry) and than spread them out on retired cookie sheets and place them on a table in the backyard in the sun for the day. This method works better in the summer than the winter.

I tried the oven method but was worried that my lowest setting would be too high so I stopped.

I'm looking into a food dehydrator for future use.

Even long term exposure to 300 degree temps will not change the structure of cartridge brass. 400 degrees, for an hour, I'd start to get concerned with softening.

Like I said before. Set it to low, and once it has preheated, turn it off. Put the brass in and leave the door cracked

[Sapperforward]

Even long term exposure to 300 degree temps will not change the structure of cartridge brass. 400 degrees, for an hour, I'd start to get concerned with softening.

Like I said before. Set it to low, and once it has preheated, turn it off. Put the brass in and leave the door cracked

Thanks for that info. I appreciate it. I will give it a go. A dehydrator is a nice option but I'm running 20 pounds of brass per load right now and I'm assuming it would take forever to dry all of that in the average dehydrator.

I think the lowest setting my oven has is something like 270 degrees. I was worried that an hour at that constant temp would compromise the casings some way.

I was going to wait until it got warm outside again to start processing my stockpile of brass but that oven is calling to me now.

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[ar15robert]

Quickest is roll out brass on a towell to get water out then bumch up brass and hit with a hairdryer fir a few minutes.

Simple is get a dehydrator put brass in there and tuen it off next day.

[LynnJr]

Reality check.

Put 5 quarters in your clothes dryer and turn it on for 5 minutes time. Now consider 500 rounds of pistol brass? Me thinks your hearing will be gone and you will need a new dryer as well.
And I just put 1000 cases outside to dry and they all floated away.