UPDATE in Post 31. Total Reloading Newbie - Looking for help.

[FishingPilot]

NO, do not put your brass in the family oven. I don't care how clean you think you got it. Also if the oven is to hot you will wreck your brass. Just no "good practice" Plus Wife may not appreciate it. I do a lot of cooking and I will not put it in my oven. It will dry overnight or use a hair dryer. Buy a cheap toaster oven at the thrift store.

I prefer a dehydrater, yard sale find or flea market. Works great.

 

[Nevada Ed]

I only use electricity to dry my brass if I can't use a cookie sheet and the sun outside..... even a window inside can work in the summer if on the southern exposure for maximum heat.

Otherwise a hair dryer or a hour or two in the "Walnut pile" will
dry / clean all the brass that I want to use...........unless you are lucky enough to have an medium pressure "Air station".

 

[SMSgt]

Get a tumbler, forget the drying.

 

[Rule3]

I only use electricity to dry my brass if I can't use a cookie sheet and the sun outside..... even a window inside can work in the summer if on the southern exposure for maximum heat.

Otherwise a hair dryer or a hour or two in the "Walnut pile" will
dry / clean all the brass that I want to use...........unless you are lucky enough to have an medium pressure "Air station".

Ed,

I do not normal wash brass but have when I got a bunch of grungy range brass that was in the sand and dirt. I can put it put in the Fl sub tropic Sun for about and hour and it dries. I know Nevada gets hotter (but it;s a dry heat) It's so hot you can not touch it.

Does it get that hot like 110F that it messes the brass up??

 

[Waywatcher]

A little plug for wet tumbling with stainless media:

No dust, ultra clean brass inside and out--looks brand new. I let air dry for a few days. Media lasts forever. Only consumables are Dawn dish soap and water (Lemi-shine is optional).

I switched from traditional tumbling to wet/stainless tumbling about 16 months ago. It is faster, cleaner, and the results are just better.

 

[scooter123]

It's a bit expensive but I don't think you'll find anyone who uses a Thumlers Tumbler with stainless steel pins who has any regrets about that choice. I've tried dry tumblers, ultrasonic cleaners, and even a washing machine and the only process that consistently produces nearly new looking brass is a wet tumbler equipped with stainless steel pins. As for drying the brass, I have 2 cheap cake pans dedicated to use with brass only and an oven that only gets to 135 degrees when set on Warm. I set the timer for 22 minutes to heat up the brass and after it's set on the stove top to finish drying overnight. BTW, I arrived at this drying method after finding that brass left in the oven too long will tarnish to a darker coloration.

 

[Rule3]

I have a Thumbler dry media tumbler (actually the brand is really made in the USA!) It cleans brass in 2 hours. Pretty much like new.No fuss no muss. A 40lb bag of corn media for $30 delivered will pretty much last forever.

Never understood the need or desire to produce "surgically clean brass" It serves no realistic purpose.

But this topic has been beat to death.

 

[Nevada Ed]

R3;

110 degrees !! ??

I live in nice, pleasant Reno town...........

Not in the Vegas Fire Bowl, where your shoes stick to the pavement in the summer time.


ps;
highs of 85 and lows of 52 next four days..... no rain or wind in sight.
later.

Also just noticed on post #31 that someone ripped up the practice putting mat for the loading bench !!
Now that is REALLY going in a different direction !!

 

[Rule3]

It's hit 96 F everyday this week Plus the humidity is about the same. Leave a tool in the Sun for 10 minutes and you can't pick it up.

I misread what you wrote. Thought you said you couldn't leave it outside.