Best way to dry your brass after they come out of sonic cleaner??

[waldo1979]

Cheap food dehydrator at 135 degrees for 1-2 hours.

 

[Silverfox]

I use extremely hot water to do my last rinse and then dump the casings on an old, thick bath towel. I shake each casing with a quick snap of my wrist trying to force any residual water out of the casing. Then I shake them in the bath towel trying to get as much water out of them as I can. Next I put them on another old dry towel and get them lined up with all the casing mouths pointed in one direction. I hold the casings down on the towel with a very thick yard stick and use an old hair dryer and blow hot air into the mouth of the casings. If you don't hold the casings down with the yard stick they will blow off the towel. I also blow air into the casings from the primer end as well. When I am reasonably certain they are pretty dry inside, I let them lay on the towel for about a day and then I'm ready to anneal them. Here's a batch of brass on a towel with the yard stick I use to hold them down.

Here's another photo of a finished batch on white paper towels and another batch ready to dry with the hair dryer:

 

[snert]

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[Mozella]

I shake them in a colander and roll them back and forth in a towel. Then I put them in a metal pan on the tennis shoe rack of my wife's clothes dryer for half an hour on "cotton". The oven method will work, but there is a chance of someone putting the oven on preheat without knowing your brass is in there; bingo, you've wrecked a batch of brass.

The idea of using volatile liquids or positioning each piece of brass into a loading block is WAY too tedious for me. Reloading is already plenty labor intensive.

 

[rogn]

I put the cases into a net laundry bag then rinse thoroughly in boiling water. Grab the bag in varying positions and rock and roll for a minute or two. Hang or pace the bag in a warm place or position a hair dryer to blow on the cases. I put mine on top of our oil furnace and reshake after an hour or two. I run about 200 762 cases at a time, they are thoroughly dry in about 4 hours or less. Or overnite. If I need more I could use multiple bags. Not much mess and little fuss.

 

[Shaggy357]

Sonic cleaner has hot water and Lemi-shine in it. Rinse clean brass in clear hot water. Shake on a dry towel for minute or two, then dump the brass into a tumbler with plain corn cob media. In about an hour, the brass is dry and polished like new, and cob absorbs the moisture. If doing several batches in a row the cob can get a little damp so i dry the cob when wet. Cob dries faster than the brass most of the time anyway.

Steve