If you wet tumble brass

[WVELK]

if you wet tumble your brass how do you dry it? Or, stated otherwise what is the easiest way? I hate waiting for it to dry before resizing.

 

[Mike D Texas]

I dry in the clothes dryer on a shoe rack and old tee shirt.

 

[Dan Carey]

Oven at 100 degrees

 

[WVELK]

Oven at 100 degrees

Thx I know how to turn the oven on but not the dryer and I would not know what a shoe rack is if it fell on me.

 

[Robobiss]

I basically only shoot out of a bolt gun, and unless I’m hunting, the brass rarely hits the ground for me to worry about it being dirty and scratching my dies. YMMV.

So I size and deprime, and basically only tumble to get the lube off of it, shiny is cool too. Small batches I don’t bother tumbling, I just wipe them.

If it’s summertime, I wait until a nice hot sunny day to do it. I shake the crap out of every piece the get the majority of the water out, and lay them out in the sun in a cardboard box. I’ll shake it a couple of times if I remember. They’re usually dry in a couple of hours.

In the fall/winter/spring, I put them in a cardboard box and put them in front of the pellet stove. They dry really quickly that way.

I’ve also given them a quick stint in the tanning booth (the oven). Mumma doesn’t always appreciate it when I do that though.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

Food dehydrator.

 

[flyfisher117]

Amazon Jerky dryer. Works well, works a lot better than the oven or the sun.

Edit: decap before tumbling. They will dry way faster.

 

[N2TRKYS]

I use to wash brass. Then I learned it was a waste of time. Haven’t washed brass in years.

 

[Smokinyotes]

It’s the only thing I know how to bake. My recipe is to shake as much water out as possible and then spread out on a cookie sheet. Bake for 30 min at 150F. Serve when cool enough to touch.

 

[huntnful]

air compressor and blow nozzle. Grab 10 cases at a time and blow them out, works fast.

 

[JMundy84]

Cheap food dehydrator

 

[PA Hunter]

Oven lowest temp only few mins.

 

[mj23polaris]

Food dehydrator they are super cheap, rinse brass in a strainer, dump on a towel kids roll them in a towel for a sec get the majority of water out. Then lay em out on a dehydrator tray.


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[deerhunter628]

On the shoe rack in the cloths dryer works great.

 

[HuntHarder]

Why wet tumble vs. Dry with corncob media? I have always dry tumbled. Is wet tumbling better?

 

[huntnful]

Why wet tumble vs. Dry with corncob media? I have always dry tumbled. Is wet tumbling better?

No it’s worse. It removes the carbon from inside the necks, which creates inconsistent neck tensions. Also it dings the shit out of the mouth of the case and ruins the chamfer depending on how long you do it. Dry tumble is much better. The cases just don’t look as nice on the outside.

 

[wyosam]

Pretty much all I wet tumble is dirty range brass (which is just 9&10mm for me). To dry, I have a highly technical and well thought out system of dumping it out on a towel on my bench after running it through the media separator, then coming back later. Works great. Sometimes I’ll dry tumble rifle brass to get the lube off if it’s higher volume stuff (Dasher mostly, or 223/223 Ackley every 3rd or 4th firing, I use a collet neck sizer to avoid lube as much as I can on those)


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[NevadaMike]

I used to wet tumble and just roll them in a beach towel and put them out in the sun. I was ready to go really quickly. I quit wet tumbling because my brass was too sticky. I was using stainless steel chips.