Be careful when oven-drying brass

[Adirondack Jack]

Coulda been a lot worse, but the above are the remnants of the drying pan and the loaded smokeless round that got mixed in with some BP brass in the soaking can.

There were a couple hundred cases on the pan, so the loaded round naturally was in the bottom.  Aside from the few damaged cases, about 50 blew all over the oven, including down through some openings alongside, ending up in the broiler.  Scared the bejeepers outta us, but nobody got hurt.

Now, imagine if it had gone off as I was taking the pan of brass out of the oven 

[Sod Buster]

Has your wife banned you from using the oven from now on??

Glad you are OK.

[Fox Creek Kid]

You're drying at too high a temp, I presume. Set the oven on warm (150F - 200F) & when it comes to temp. sit the pan in the oven & then SHUT OFF the oven & let sit a few hrs. 

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

 I dry brass over the forced air heating vents.  Set them up in plastic ammo box "thingies"

[Adirondack Jack]

You're drying at too high a temp, I presume. Set the oven on warm (150F - 200F) & when it comes to temp. sit the pan in the oven & then SHUT OFF the oven & let sit a few hrs. 

I normally put it at 200, but today I lit it up at 250, in part to warm the cool kitchen.  250 won't hurt brass, but it does a number on gunpowder and a primer.

[Mad Mucus]

    

Mucus

[sundance44`s]

Good Greif you wife is gonna band ya from the kitchen for good ....what i do if i need or want my brass dried fast ...i use the wife`s hair dryer ..that thing gets hot enough ..just spread the cases out on a old towel and keep it moveing a min or two ......that is if your wife will ever let ya touch anything of hers again ..

[Dick Dastardly]

Ho AJ,

Ceramic Porcelain media is run wet.  When I shake out a batch and rinse it off, I dry it in my Lyman shaker tumbler with corncob media.  I've got an old Gralab timer that I set for one hour and let 'er flicker.  Brass comes out dry and ready to load.

My bride won't let me in the kitchen since I burnt the beans so bad she had to call the fire department.

Hey!  All  us guys ought to find a way to get banished from the galley.  Our brides are better cooks anyway.  FWIW, mine still lets me peal potatoes and make pancakes and coffee.

DD-DLoS

[Delmonico]

Speak for yerself Dick, mine ain't bad but she don't hold a candle to me in the kitchen.

[Cuts Crooked]

Speak for yerself Dick, mine ain't bad but she don't hold a candle to me in the kitchen.

Amen Pard!!!! I had to teach my beloved wife how to cook. Admittedly she took what I taught her and bettered it , but she couldn't boil water when I married her!

[Marshal Will Wingam]

Speak for yerself Dick, mine ain't bad but she don't hold a candle to me in the kitchen.

Yeah, same here. I guess I like food more than she does. 

[Adirondack Jack]

Amen Pard!!!! I had to teach my beloved wife how to cook. Admittedly she took what I taught her and bettered it , but she couldn't boil water when I married her!

Amen.  I married a gal who lived at home with her mom and grandma.  She had been the designated dishwasher and could hardly boil water.  AAMOF, one of our longest running (not so) secret jokes involves me asking her to "burn some water" when I want coffee

15 years on she's pretty accomplished, but I can still teach her a thing or two about cooking (but don't dare too often cuz I don't want the job) 

[Dr. Bob]

Golly,  if I don't cook, I go hungry.  Can't get the cat to cook a thing!

[sundance44`s]

Mine can`t cook eaither ..BUT ..she sure can shoot .. if i married a woman that could cook ..i`d be so over weight i couldn`t shoot ...so its a give and take . I could sail around the world on navy beans .