How to Dry Wet Brass in Under 2 Minutes!

[john boy]

Look around the gun and casting forums and you will see posts of many different ways to dry your wet brass.
Well, Billy Mays is here to tell you it can be done in under 2 minutes with two very common household 'tools':
* Your wife's or 'your'  hair dryer
* A towel of any appropriate size to hold the batch of wet brass

Shake off the excess water in the cases.  Lay your wet cases on a towel.  Make and hold a 'cone shape' of one end of the towel.  Stuff all the cases into the cone.  Turn the hair dryer on High and point it into the cone.  In effect, one has created an oven.  In under 2 minutes, the cases will be so hot, one can not hold one with their fingers - Done!
These are the batch with TSP that I did in 2.5 hours

[hellgate]

I put my wet brass into a 1 lb coffee can and turn a goose neck desk lamp down into the can and the bulb heats them up and they are dry in an hour or two while I putter around and do something else. Your hair dryer technique is a lot faster but a bit noisy I suspect.

[Delmonico]

John Boy, be careful and only do small batches and above all don't get too close with the dryer.  Luckly I just overheated my wifes and after a bit the reset switch fixed it.   

[Django]

John Boy, be careful and only do small batches and above all don't get too close with the dryer.  Luckly I just overheated my wifes and after a bit the reset switch fixed it.   

There must be a recipe for this job using a Dutch Oven!!?

[john boy]

Thanks Del for the tip.  I do one tumbler at a time and that's about 30-40 cases.  Plus, I'm really glad to hear the hair dryer was your wife's and not yours! 

[Delmonico]

John Boy, my hair is longer than hers.

[Angel_Eyes]

My advice???
Don't use the gas oven on your cooker.
Never thought about temperature levels or length of time and when I came back, some time later, the cases had all turned a funny colour.

(So did the wife!!)

AE

[Mossyrock]

Come on, guys!!!  This is the 21st century!!!!  Just put them in the microwave....   

[john boy]

Just put them in the microwave....

Mossyrock ... no room left in my gun room for a microwave  Did put a wall mounted TV in it though!