Drying brass after cleaning
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LE-28
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I use an inferred ceiling heater I mounted on the wall above one of my workbenches. It uses two tubes and will dry a cookie sheet of brass in 20 minutes flat. I already had the heater and didn't use it so it was a no brainer for me.
Don't wash the darn stuff and you never have to dry it!
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S&W1006
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I used to spread my brass out on a towel and use a fan. That method would often leave spots. I picked up a NIB food dehydrator at a yard sale for $7. It works beautifully and I have plenty of trays to spare. It dries the brass in an hour or less depending on how many trays I stack on.
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Maybe I am backwards. I give them the vinegar bath, drain, and then throw them in the corn cob media. Run them for 8 hours and they come out dry.
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I tumble brass in RCBS Sidewinder with stainless pin media, seperate pins from brass, towel dry, then dry in vibratory with corn cob media.
Bkreutz
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I must be missing something. I went to SS pin tumbling to get away from the vibrator/media thing. Can't imagine doing both!
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I was thinking the same thing. I hate the dust from the media.
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Clean brass is a topic we never tire of beating to death.
Clean brass is a topic we never tire of beating to death.
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I see you're in MN so I can't help myself! My prescription would be to come out here to Arizona, wash 'em and lay 'em out in the warm sunshine . . . shouldn't take long to dry and you can enjoy a nice ice tea under the covered patio while you're waiting!
Freischütz
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Put the brass over the forced air duct from your furnace. The warm air will dry it quickly.
chaparrito
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I have a big sifter I made originally for sifting dry beans from the garden. 2x4 frame with quarter inch hardware cloth stapled to it. Put on two upturned pickle buckets and spread the brass out on it. Leave it in the sun for a half a day or so and they're bone dry.
Bkreutz
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Good idea if one lives in Arizona like you do, here in Seattle, not so good of an idea. Sun for half a day, what is that??
During our wet winter, after washing the brass, I shake out the excess water in an old bath towel.
Dump the damp brass in a big colander and set it over a heater vent. An hour or maybe 2 and they're done.
Same vent I use to dry stocks that I' refinishing with Tru-Oil.
Dump the damp brass in a big colander and set it over a heater vent. An hour or maybe 2 and they're done.
Same vent I use to dry stocks that I' refinishing with Tru-Oil.
JR. I've done a lifelong study on most all metals. I can assure you that you have to get it red or almost red to affect the temper off it. Brass included... Brass tends to get harder the more times you fire it. But that is because of the pressure it is under not the heat..... Think of it this way.I f a piece of heavy equipment sat out in the sun for a day. The hydraulic rams would lose there temper and when you went to use it the rams would just bend. A jet setting on the ground in the hot sun,when it took off would just fold in the middle. Just a bit of trivia. MJ.Geno-- now here is something??? Could be an old wives tale, I cannot say--- VERY many years ago when I would help my Dad on the weekends, who was a carpenter, he always told me NEVER to leave a hand saw laying in the sun- said it would take the temper out of it. True?? I don't know because I just never did that.
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Some of you guys must be doing your drying in a real hot area!!
I have yet to see "Dust" come off my walnut media...........here in Reno Nevada............ but I don't add any polish or additives, either.
If I have to use 220 instead of just the little 110 electric I will pass................. Hate to see that meter spin around so fast!!
I have yet to see "Dust" come off my walnut media...........here in Reno Nevada............ but I don't add any polish or additives, either.
If I have to use 220 instead of just the little 110 electric I will pass................. Hate to see that meter spin around so fast!!
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chaparrito
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Agreed. I tried to live in Longview a long time ago. A girl, natch. Lasted three months during which I saw something that vaguely resembled the sun exactly 5 times.
J. R. WEEMS
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J. R. WEEMS
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MJ- HA!!! another old wives tale shot to h- maybe the old man just wanted me to take care of his tools.
dbltapster
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Forced air heating!
This is what I do. I towel dry the brass, then spread it out onto a large cookie sheet and lay it in front of the heat vent. While I tinker with things in the man-cave, the brass gets dried...Usually takes 15 minutes until they are bone dry.
This is what I do. I towel dry the brass, then spread it out onto a large cookie sheet and lay it in front of the heat vent. While I tinker with things in the man-cave, the brass gets dried...Usually takes 15 minutes until they are bone dry.
MJ- HA!!! another old wives tale shot to h- maybe the old man just wanted me to take care of his tools.
How hot does the brass get when fired? Pick some up
