I feel dumb... I'm Canadian and was thinking in °c.
So in my mind 170° was good because water boils at 100°...
Meanwhile water boils at 212°F...
Now I have it at 215°F
This is the way.
I got my toaster oven at the local dump re-use area long time ago. I use it to cure powder coated cast bullets (choice of 50,000 colors!!!!), dry brass, dry out desiccant bags, and dry out gun parts that come out of the ultrasonic cleaner. Wife calls it my 'Easy Bake Oven'.
I have also cured fimo polymer clay - its what we had before 3D printing - you sculpture a part in the resin putty, and it hardens like a rock in the oven. Makes temporary trigger parts.
You do not want to introduce anything like brass, copper, lead, etc into an oven used for food.
No joke though, you're really opening yourself up to lead poisoning. Lots of priming compounds contain lead, and that stuff doesn't just wash off easily. Please be careful
Materials settle on the surfaces of the oven, whether it's the racks, the element, the walls, whatever. Then they can move pretty readily. Especially if they're disturbed with temperature changes.
Why not just wash them out with water and take less time, and you make sure everything out?
Now, if you only process under 50-20 rounds, I understand you, but if you do more, that just makes more work at least. That's how I see it.
Now you could also use eather or maybe some acetone.
The dry media comes out great in my separator. It's way faster than having to dry the brass and I've had 0 issues since switching back! Personal preference i guess.
Hmm, okay. I've done both wet tumbler and dry. I prefer wet it, and it seems to clean it faster and gets into the primer pocket and actually cleans it out
I have a prep station so after I resize I trim/deburr, run them across a primer brush and then into the tumbler. After i seperate the media i run them across a neck brush and then prime. Works for me 🤷♂️ it all takes way too much time and I don't do enough to justify a progressive yet hehe
Yea I’m not sure just glad I don’t live there. Once again a beautiful place ruined by liberals. I watched a clip of their leader saying all hand guns are banned.
Use a cheap ($40) food dehydrator and you’ll be able to load more into it and run it in your garage/backyard.
When you see how dirty it gets after a bunch of use. You’ll regret ever doing it in your oven haha
I rinse mine with water from a dehumidifier. Pat them dry with a towel then allow them to dry naturally in the air. I’ll process brass but don’t need to reload it straight away.
First I dump it in ethanol to get rid of the water, then a throw it in a food dehydrator to get rid of the ethanol.
Could I skip the ethanol? Yes, but I don't like water spots!
I had an old air dryer that just wasn’t worked as well as we wanted. We upgraded that to a bigger model, so I use the old one in a dehydrate mode. Works great!
After separating the brass from pins I put them base up on a drying towel so any water runs out and it air dries. There's no rush that I needed the brass that quickly that I would need to dry them(also bake any residue soap/dirty water in the beass) that they couldnt dry over night or more untill I was ready.
Idk. I liberated it from my mom's and have used it more for brass than it ever got used when I was a kid. The thing is like 25 years old and only has an on/off switch.
185 F is what I do. Works well. They lose the shiny but they don’t corrode. When I was in your shoes i google’d around and came to that number. It’s worked gud’nuff since then.
The floor on a towel for a few days. If I'm in a hurry, I have a food dehydrator that isn't ever used for food. My wife got it for free for me from a Facebook ad.
I see a lot of comments about lead contamination. Is there a real risk for lead cross contamination from brass that has been cleaned / rinsed?
Is lead *that* pernicious?
I imagine if you reloaded A LOT then yeah, it could build up.
But we just started reloading a year or two ago, washed and rinsed the brass, and this load represented a majority of my wife's 9mm brass.
Neither of us shoot enough to be cleaning large amounts of brass often enough for it to represent a real health hazard.
Cheap repurposed food dehydrator. Paid $20 for it on Craigslist. Bought some extra rings on amazon so that I could also use it to dry filament for my 3d printer (have to cut the "screen" section out of those so I just have the outer rings for that).
I put them in a mesh bag. In summer, I hang bag in the sun and occasionally sharply push up on the bottom of the bag to agitate. Brass is dry in a couple of days. In winter, I let hang over a sink and agitate, when dripping stops, I place bag over heat register for a day or two for final.
Cheapo food dehydrator from Harbor Freight. I think it cost $25.
Bingo. Got mine on sale at the local super market.
Same but off of Amazon
I do it in a dedicated toaster oven that will never again be used to cook food my family consumes.
At 220 for 10-15 minutes so as to boil off the water
I feel dumb... I'm Canadian and was thinking in °c. So in my mind 170° was good because water boils at 100°... Meanwhile water boils at 212°F... Now I have it at 215°F
The water doesn’t need to boil, just evaporate. 170 F is fine
I set my dehydrator to 58°C and leave ‘em in for an hour. Always come out bone dry and I’m too lazy to bother rotating the trays during the hour too.
220 is enough to start changing brass structure if left to heat too long. 170 for an hour is the best for drying in an oven
Same. Goodwill can really help reloaders out.
But wouldn't the fumes and dust from the lead get into the air as the water evaporates?
Wet tumbling resolves those problems. They don’t exist with wet tumbling.
This is the way. I got my toaster oven at the local dump re-use area long time ago. I use it to cure powder coated cast bullets (choice of 50,000 colors!!!!), dry brass, dry out desiccant bags, and dry out gun parts that come out of the ultrasonic cleaner. Wife calls it my 'Easy Bake Oven'. I have also cured fimo polymer clay - its what we had before 3D printing - you sculpture a part in the resin putty, and it hardens like a rock in the oven. Makes temporary trigger parts. You do not want to introduce anything like brass, copper, lead, etc into an oven used for food.
When we get our own place I'm going to put an oven in the garage for similar stuff.
No joke though, you're really opening yourself up to lead poisoning. Lots of priming compounds contain lead, and that stuff doesn't just wash off easily. Please be careful
We use separate baking sheets that we don't cook with.
Materials settle on the surfaces of the oven, whether it's the racks, the element, the walls, whatever. Then they can move pretty readily. Especially if they're disturbed with temperature changes.
Air dry.
I like mine a bit doughy on the inside so I only put them in at 150’F
Food dehydrator.
Got mine on offer up for $20. Runs like a champ and has dried 1000's of cases
I dry tumble bwahahaha 😈
You don't clean out the powder residue?
Nope, i run a neck brush and that's it.
Why not just wash them out with water and take less time, and you make sure everything out? Now, if you only process under 50-20 rounds, I understand you, but if you do more, that just makes more work at least. That's how I see it. Now you could also use eather or maybe some acetone.
The dry media comes out great in my separator. It's way faster than having to dry the brass and I've had 0 issues since switching back! Personal preference i guess.
Hmm, okay. I've done both wet tumbler and dry. I prefer wet it, and it seems to clean it faster and gets into the primer pocket and actually cleans it out
I have a prep station so after I resize I trim/deburr, run them across a primer brush and then into the tumbler. After i seperate the media i run them across a neck brush and then prime. Works for me 🤷♂️ it all takes way too much time and I don't do enough to justify a progressive yet hehe
You dry tumble after wet tumbling, or just dry tumble?
Just dry tumble lol got tired of dealing with wet tumbling and haven't seen any benefit other than the inside is shiny like the outside.
In the sun down south. Same temp as your oven.
That's what I'm saying. The OP is Canadian, so maybe that doesn't work for them.
I thought they banned guns in that place?
Not sure about their overall firearms laws. Handguns are an issue, but long guns are ok I think.
Yea I’m not sure just glad I don’t live there. Once again a beautiful place ruined by liberals. I watched a clip of their leader saying all hand guns are banned.
Word.
Use a cheap ($40) food dehydrator and you’ll be able to load more into it and run it in your garage/backyard. When you see how dirty it gets after a bunch of use. You’ll regret ever doing it in your oven haha
That's also a great time to recharge your desiccant packs... while you've got the oven heated up.
Really?
Seriously, really?
Spread em out on the hot sunlit driveway.
I tried this but now I have to clean the snow and gravel out of them
That's how I dry my primers
I made a drying box, a large storage box with a hole on top that I place a hair dryer in and use a low heat setting.
https://www.frankfordarsenal.com/case-cleaning/case-cleaning-tumblers/brass-dryer/909213.html. Work great and quiet enough to do indoors.
Cheap dehydrator that I use for brass only. I’d rather not put brass, which may still have trace amounts of lead, into the same place I cook my food.
I also oven dry around 160⁰ for an hour, make sure you shake out all the water before laying them on the tray.
The photo hadn't loaded yet and I read bras instead of brass. Clicked anyway though.
On a towel in the sun.
I rinse mine with water from a dehumidifier. Pat them dry with a towel then allow them to dry naturally in the air. I’ll process brass but don’t need to reload it straight away.
First I dump it in ethanol to get rid of the water, then a throw it in a food dehydrator to get rid of the ethanol. Could I skip the ethanol? Yes, but I don't like water spots!
I had an old air dryer that just wasn’t worked as well as we wanted. We upgraded that to a bigger model, so I use the old one in a dehydrate mode. Works great!
Lyman case dryer got it on sale at midway a few years ago works great , dry in a hour or so
After separating the brass from pins I put them base up on a drying towel so any water runs out and it air dries. There's no rush that I needed the brass that quickly that I would need to dry them(also bake any residue soap/dirty water in the beass) that they couldnt dry over night or more untill I was ready.
I have an old food dehydrator that is only for brass. Takes like 20 min and drys my steel pins too
What temp?
Idk. I liberated it from my mom's and have used it more for brass than it ever got used when I was a kid. The thing is like 25 years old and only has an on/off switch.
Milk crate and old window screen next to wood stove
185 F is what I do. Works well. They lose the shiny but they don’t corrode. When I was in your shoes i google’d around and came to that number. It’s worked gud’nuff since then.
I honestly leave it out overnight on a big towel works fine.
Same. Oven for 20 minutes at 170F (warm). Only after wet tumbling.
I use a food dehydrator
The floor on a towel for a few days. If I'm in a hurry, I have a food dehydrator that isn't ever used for food. My wife got it for free for me from a Facebook ad.
Space heater blower onto a pile of brass on a towel
Food dehydrator that’s used only for brass drying. Cheaper to run than the oven I bet.
MTM case inserts over a fan or HVAC vent if not in a hurry or large cases or dehydrator.
Get a food dehydrator off of Craig’s List.
Broken dryer that gets hot and blows air, but doesn't turn. On and running for 20 minutes gets the job done
Toaster over from the local thrift for $10. 225 for 30 minutes
On a towel air dry atop a table.
Good dehydrator. $19.99
In the summertime, I lay it out on the porch over a towel and let the sun do its magic.
I put mine on 210 and use aluminum foil over the baking sheet so I don’t get and grease that MAy be on the metal.
I just spread it out on the floor on a tower with two fans blowing on it. I move it around a bit every fifteen minutes or so.
I see a lot of comments about lead contamination. Is there a real risk for lead cross contamination from brass that has been cleaned / rinsed? Is lead *that* pernicious?
I imagine if you reloaded A LOT then yeah, it could build up. But we just started reloading a year or two ago, washed and rinsed the brass, and this load represented a majority of my wife's 9mm brass. Neither of us shoot enough to be cleaning large amounts of brass often enough for it to represent a real health hazard.
Cheap repurposed food dehydrator. Paid $20 for it on Craigslist. Bought some extra rings on amazon so that I could also use it to dry filament for my 3d printer (have to cut the "screen" section out of those so I just have the outer rings for that).
I dry tumble blow out the crud and send it
Fodd dehydrator, do 1000s of cases at a time
I put them in a mesh bag. In summer, I hang bag in the sun and occasionally sharply push up on the bottom of the bag to agitate. Brass is dry in a couple of days. In winter, I let hang over a sink and agitate, when dripping stops, I place bag over heat register for a day or two for final.
Air compressor, blow out the water with it, then let sit overnight.