How I reduced my drying time after SS wet tumbling.

[michaeljp65]

Whats metho?

Metho is Australian for Methylated Spirits
Denatured alcohol, also called methylated spirits or denatured rectified spirit, is ethanol that has additives to make it poisonous, bad tasting, foul smelling or nauseating, to discourage recreational consumption. ... Rather, the ethanol is mixed with other chemicals to form an undrinkable solution.

 

[Clark]

85 pounds of brass... I used to do that for fun

 

[danny]

Individual case handling is my least favorite part of reloading. I can't imagine placing hundreds of cases on little pins just to dry them. Then I would have to find a storage spot for the rather fragile drying rack.

I dump my wet brass into a bath towel, form a hammock shape, and slide them back and forth for a few seconds to get rid of nearly all the external moisture. Then I dump them into a big SS baking pan and put the pan on my wife's tennis shoe rack inside the clothes dryer. Twenty minutes on "cotton" makes them completely dry. There is no danger of overheating the brass, like there might be in an oven, and no danger of using a device which is also used for food. Plus there is no uni-task device to store; I use the baking pan strictly in my reloading shop for other purposes other than drying brass.

If you don't have a shoe rack, you can put the brass into a mesh bag and trap the mouth of the bag in the dryer door so that it hangs inside the door without touching the rotating dryer drum.

My next reloading step is annealing, which takes care of any potential residual moisture.

I do about the same, except for the dryer trick. I do, however, rinse the brass in as hot of water as I can get before putting them in the towel. There is about pretty much less than a 0% chance that I am going to play around with my brass enough to be racking them, especially a batch of 1000.

Danny

 

[Texan]

I'm not saying this doesn't work, but how much drying time has it decreased (from without using your rack)?

It seems to me that anything that restricts air movement in or out of the case would increase drying time.

I let my brass air dry on a towel, and usually brush cases over that are laying on end, to make sure all of the cases are laying on their side...that way both the powder space and primer pockets are exposed to air.

With normal humidity levels, and no fan directed on them, they usually dry within about a day and a half.

 

[urbanrifleman]

Do you final rinse after cleaning with half acetone and half denatured alcohol. Just long enough to get it wet is fine. The brass will dry in about one minute if you shake them on a towel.

 

[Delfuego]

I will say it again Rinse them and get a hair dryer from the dollar store or goodwill. Fast and cheap!!!!

 

[dcali]

Don't let your wife see, but you can just chuck them in the oven set at 200 for a bit, and it dries them right up.

 

[Mozella]

Don't let your wife see, but you can just chuck them in the oven set at 200 for a bit, and it dries them right up.

The danger is that someone will get an urge to do a batch of nachos and set the oven to broil without noticing your brass is inside. That's why I like the tennis shoe rack in my wife's clothes dryer.