Wet tumbling dryer...

[Rsadams]

How many of you use a dryer for your wet tumbled brass and what kind of time does it take to dry.... What brand do you use..???

I have gone back to dry tumbling years ago but I have a nice thumbler tumbler just sitting in a box.... I used to just set the cases out in the sun here in Texas or put them in the oven at a low temperature setting but that takes to long.... I am going to move and am picking up alot of once fired brass especially pistol brass that has water stains etc and would like to clean them up before storing them.... I won't have access as easy to range pickups soon so nows the time....

Just fyi for my brass I have loaded and am shooting I don't wet tumbler I dry tumble to leave the carbon in the necks etc...

Thanks in advance for your advice...
Shawn

 

[Rick300]

After towel drying I put them in the oven at 200 for 30 - 40 minutes. I use a little bit of wash and wax so they stay looking good.

 

[rwj]

I use a Presto food dehydrator set at 130 degrees F for 60 minutes.

 

[Paul's Black Rifles]

I use a food dehydrator I bought for $5.00. Seems to work as good as the expensive ones.

Paul

 

[RustyInBend]

I'm a Frankford Arsenal fan-boy ... I wet-tumble using FA's premium tumbler and soap packs (no pins - yuck), and then dry for 2 hours in the FA brass dryer at around 140°. They come out looking beautiful.

 

[Maximus1840]

I use the clothes dryer with the brass in a stainless steel strainer on the sneaker rack. 40 minutes

 

[SongdogHunter]

I use my case dryer for making Jerky

 

[RegionRat]

Somebody gave me this one with the whole wet tumbling set a long time ago.
I had to repair the fuse once early on, but it has been solid since then.

 

[RabbitSlayer]

I tried the oven a few times. Not a fan. I just roll em on a towel and let em sit. Sometimes I get a jug of whiskey and blow each case out with the compressor . Of course in las vegas the humidity is often less than 10%, so that helps.

 

[ChillFlow]

I dry tumble for 1 hour, right after I wet tumble the brass. It drys up the brass quickly and it gets a nice luster on the brass too.

 

[NorCalMikie]

The Texas Sun will dry that brass.
I put mine in the gas oven with the heat from the pilot light to get them dry over night.
If you've got an electric oven, roll the brass on a towel then put the brass in a heated oven. They WILL get dry.

 

[coldboreshot]

Lyman brass dryer. 1 hr, 75 pieces at a time. During that time, wet tumbling the next match-batch.

 

[Straightshooter1]

Whenever I wet tumble, I just dry them with a dowel a bit then have them laid out on a dry towel and heat the up with a heat gun so they're hot enough to evaporate the moisture residing inside the cases (they're a little too hot to touch, but cool off quick enough). I takes about 10 minutes for a batch of ~150 .308 cases.

 

[jpjulian]

Convection oven @ 225F for about a 1/2 hour. Easy button.

 

[jepp2]

I dry tumble for 1 hour, right after I wet tumble the brass. It drys up the brass quickly and it gets a nice luster on the brass too.

Same here. I can dry them in the hot CO sun in 30 minutes, but the dry media tumbler puts the protective coat on them to keep them shiny longer.

 

[SSchnd]

Summer sun after a roll in the towel . Winter, same towel just left to dry on the floor inside the house if very cold out. Dehydrators work well

 

[fkimble@charter.net]

Don't like dry tumbling right after wet cleaning. Have found where some water solidified the "dry" media causing a case volume reduction. Thankfully doing the light check on a loading block of 50 showed the problem! Dumped out the powder, nothing else. Took a small screwdriver and ran it around the inside at head, out came a pile of cob! I let em sit overnight even after a trip thru the dehydrator.

Frank

Frank

 

[Fuj]

Never could figure out why Yinz want to wet tumble in the first
place ???

 

[MikeT124]

Lyman dryer, use it to dry the brass and the stainless pins on one shelf, got fine nylon screen at a hobby store cut it to size for the pins, works just fine.

Mike

 

[TrapperBR549]

I use my Excalibur dehydrator. It is a multi-tasker.