Drying Pistol Brass

[Stkx66]

Thanks for all the input. Today I cleaned and resized in my GRX/ Redding single stage around 350 nickel casings. I also tumbled in Walnut media with drier sheets and a cap full of NuFinish around 500 brass casings.
Again, thank you all for your input. I'm going to try reloading both brass and nickel cases with no lube at all and see how it goes and in the future skip the wash cycle.

[Stkx66]

Here's a pic of the resized 10mm Nickel plated casings. Now to reloading...

[diveRN]

I used to wash my brass, too, but not anymore unless cases have been in the mud. I've NEVER bothered with case lube on pistol cartridges. I've loaded thousands of 9mm, .38, .357, .40, and .45.

Like you, I use walnut media.

Tumble until clean, spin in the media separator until the heavy stuff is out, toss in a plastic tote, reload.

[CSACANNONEER]

Don't ever forget that when you add Nu finish or anything else to your media, tumble it for a while until it gets evenly distributed through out the media BEFORE you put brass in.

[bigedp51]

I wet tumble with stainless steel media and dry my cases in less than five minutes with a hair drier, fast and simple with "HOT" moving air. (AKA convection oven)



If your using treated walnut media it contains a polishing compound and why I went to wet tumbling. At http://www.accurateshooter.com/ many of the competitive shooters do not want the abrasive compound blown into their custom made barrels. "BUT" in the past I simply used a oversized case neck brush to clean the inside of the case to remove any loose polishing dust.

[MrElectric03]

After I tumble my brass in ss media I move it around in a towel a bit then sit it in front of a fan for a few hours. Gets nice and dry but that's also with no primers so I'm sure some more air goes through them.

[Twystd1]

I wet tumble with stainless steel media and dry my cases in less than five minutes with a hair drier, fast and simple with "HOT" moving air. (AKA convection oven)



If your using treated walnut media it contains a polishing compound and why I went to wet tumbling. At http://www.accurateshooter.com/ many of the competitive shooters do not want the abrasive compound blown into their custom made barrels. "BUT" in the past I simply used a oversized case neck brush to clean the inside of the case to remove any loose polishing dust.

Why the hell are drying 22 long rifle? Did you get it wet?

Just wondering.....

-T

[kouye]

I also use an old food dehydrator for when I stainless steel wet tumble my brass. It works great and makes use of something I haven't used in a decade.

[rsrocket1]

No need for the Nu Finish either unless you want your media to get black sooner than it should. Used dryer sheets is all you need. Eventually almost all the walnut dust will be gone and the dryer sheets pick up most all the soot and lead styphnate primer dust. Anything added to the media makes that stuff stick to the walnut instead of getting carried off into the dryer sheets. No big deal, but you will be changing out the media sooner than later.