Dude buy a food dehydrator, inspire of what Catshooter will say, mine works great. I dump the brass and pins in my media separator dive it enough turns to get all the pins out of cases, throw them in the dehydrator for forty mins. Let them cool, cause they're too hot to handle. Never had a case wet inside!
"Baked" brass
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skiutah02
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Happened again 
This time it was my daughter about to bake cookies for her 7th grade class. 25 min @ 350. I put them in the oven as I left for the range to warm for 2 hours and when I returned 4 hours later, they were crispy. I believe that they are still fine, but they really discolor when subjected to these temps. Look like "rainbowed" steel. More evidence I am untrainable. Oh well.
This time it was my daughter about to bake cookies for her 7th grade class. 25 min @ 350. I put them in the oven as I left for the range to warm for 2 hours and when I returned 4 hours later, they were crispy. I believe that they are still fine, but they really discolor when subjected to these temps. Look like "rainbowed" steel. More evidence I am untrainable. Oh well.Just to add to the length of this conversation, why is everyone in such a hurry that they have to "force dry" their brass?
I keep enough brass around that I can have a batch ready to shoot, a batch that is fresh from the range, and a batch that has been cleaned, dried, and ready for the rest of the processing.
When my brass comes out of the "pin cleaning/wash", I separate and shake as dry as I can in a large terry towel. From there it gets spread out to dry on it's own. If I'm slightly in a hurry I'll put the cases "nose down" in a loading block and put it in front of a fan. Otherwise, there's plenty to work with while the brass dries.
I keep enough brass around that I can have a batch ready to shoot, a batch that is fresh from the range, and a batch that has been cleaned, dried, and ready for the rest of the processing.
When my brass comes out of the "pin cleaning/wash", I separate and shake as dry as I can in a large terry towel. From there it gets spread out to dry on it's own. If I'm slightly in a hurry I'll put the cases "nose down" in a loading block and put it in front of a fan. Otherwise, there's plenty to work with while the brass dries.
skiutah02
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amlevin said:
I suppose that I should answer since I started this thread. When I started reloading for the first time (last June) I could put my freshly tumbled brass in the sun to dry during the day (no rush), but during the ND winters, that is not an option. When I purchased my 308 in December to try in FTR this summer (I was excited) and I wanted to develop loads using a smaller set of weighed brass before I loaded a set of "match ready", and this "required" a quicker turn around as the weather is "nice enough" for load development rarely in winter and when a window emerged, I was sometimes loading a test batch at night, shooting them in the morning, reloading the same brass as quickly as possible to shoot the same afternoon (gets dark at around 4 pm) and repeating for the next day (if weather allowed). On occasion it might get above 32oF for 1-2 days in three week span (or longer), so I figured the oven would help speed things along and insure no moisture in the case.
I did end up shooting at -25 oF sometimes, but usually tried when it was above 10oF. This winter was particularly cold, but not enough to cool off my enthusiasm for my new hobby. The mosquitoes arrived yesterday and this is more annoying to me than a frostbitten trigger finger
skiutah02 said:
At those temps you could just "freeze dry" your cases 8)
I used to get tired of frost bitten trigger finger too. Rather than give up shooting when it's cold I just went to Cabela's and bought a pair of "Glo-Mitts". They have a nice pocket for a handwarmer packet. Pull the "mitten tip" back, shoot, then pull the nice warm "mitten tip" back over the finger tips.
I built a box that a "gun" style hair dryer fits into a hole on one side and drilled enough holes on the other side to ensure plenty of air flow. I can now dry my brass at just air temp., low, med.,or high. The hair dryer has a thermostat so it can't overheat. I even plug it into a timer so I can leave the area and not have to listen to it. Paul
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