Well I looked around for awhile and decided to go with the Thumbler Tumbler Model B tumbler. Got it from stainlesssteelmedia.com for 194.00 which is the cheapest I'd found anywhere. They also had the best price on media, 5 lbs. for 39 bucks. I also got the upgraded larger knobs for the lid. All I need to get is a media separator which I seen a youtube video where a guy uses a 5 buck salad bowl/mixer from wally world, worked like a champ.

Look for a brass dryer. After years of using a towel in a sunny spot I got one.

Heck!!! A cookie sheet in the oven for 20 minutes at 250* works great!!!
Larry

I usually stay below 190 and never gets stained/discoloured brass from the heat.

250 and 190 of what? F or C?

I tried the oven method at 100C/212F and after about half an hour there was still water on the inside of some cases.

The best way to dry cases is with an air compressor and then use some method of heating.

My drier, which I got from them broke after the first use. They refunded me for it but I still don't have a fast way of completely drying cases yet.

I lay the cases in an old a towel, grab two corners and blast them with Mrs. Gerry's gazillion watt hair dryer set on take-off speed for a coupla minutes - they're good to go.

Warm enough that you don't want to handle them for a few minutes when you're done but not so hot as to make them discolor.

I've been using SS media for a while now. I de-cap first. Don't forget the 1/4 tsp. Lemi shine (no more). Nothing gets brass cleaner.

You'll need to develop a system to rinse and separate the brass from the media but when you do, you'll love it.

A five gallon plastic bucket and a hair drier, poor mans convection oven.

A cooking sheet lined with parchment paper and 170 degree Fahrenheit (amended) convection oven. The ultimate brass dryer!

170 of what? C or F or apples?

Jiri

Jiri, they are talking 170 degrees Fahrenheit. Just enough to make them warm.

Maybe he meant 170 Kelvin cryo treatment.

Jiri get on the horse and smart up a little!
You sound as dumb as the Imperial guys.

If an American asks a question the ansver is given in imperial units because hes to dumb to convert from metric himself.

And it seems that you're to dumb to figure that out, so:
Brass is dried below the boiling point of water and that is done so the brass wont discolour. So for you alone:
Brass is dried in the oven at @90degC~194degF~363degK~654degR

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Originally posted by Rusty:
A cooking sheet lined with parchment paper and 170 degree convection oven. The ultimate brass dryer!

Oops I forgot! Y'all don't use the Fahrenheit scale on your side of the pond!

Dear The Dane: There is no degree K, there is only simple K ;-)

Jiri

quote:

Originally posted by duckboat:
Maybe he meant 170 Kelvin cryo treatment.

It will definitively works :-)

To dry my cases I use 3 different methods... Use an old dark Teflon lined cake pan set out into the sun... summer time solar heating.

or use the kitchen oven set to minimum [170 F ~ 77C ~ 350K ~ 630R ] which also works well. I present the temperature scale buffet as a demonstration to The Dane that there is at least one American who is conversant in different temperature scales. And as long as we are being snarky.... The Dane should brush up either on his typing [ "to dumb' ] or his use of common English. Or both.

I also dry cases on an electric griddle my bride wanted to throw out because the temperature control scale [merely in Fahrenheit] was no longer easy to read. The cases are laid down and get heated for a while. Used an electronic cooking thermometer to recalibrate the control scale. During heating the temperature varies but the max temperature I use is about 170 F [those who are temperature conversion challenged should see the above.] :-)

quote:

Originally posted by The Dane:
Jiri get on the horse and smart up a little!
You sound as dumb as the Imperial guys.

If an American asks a question the ansver is given in imperial units because hes to dumb to convert from metric himself.

And it seems that you're to dumb to figure that out, so:
Brass is dried below the boiling point of water and that is done so the brass wont discolour. So for you alone:
Brass is dried in the oven at @90degC~194degF~363degK~654degR

First I heard of degR. I'll have to look it up.

++ to the Hair Dryer method, I lay mine on papertowels and blast each end as I slowly move the blower along the line of cases. Been working great for the past 10 years or so.

I'm a little more "frugle". To dry brass get a bath towel and fold it in half length wise. See one end and most of the long edge together. You get a larger opening to pour brass into this way. Shake the rinse water out of the cases in a colander and pour it into the towel. Grab the open end with your hand and bunch it up to close it. Grab the other end with your other hand. Tumble with a motion similar to either shining your shoes or polishing a bowling ball. Raise one hand while lowering the other. This shakes most of the water out of the brass. Pour the brass from the towel on to a cookie sheet and set it on a shelf. Come home from work the next day and the brass should be dry and ready to either prime or store. You can place cookie sheets in the sun in the summer, also.

I'd rather dry fruit in my dehydrator than brass. Applesauce makes a great fruit leather.

Best alternative I've found to dry cases is to blow the excess water off them (with a pet hair drier I picked up at a flea market) and then dry them in a food dehydrator with multiple stacking trays.


Works beautifully!

Shucks I spread them on a hand towel and lay on the floor heat vent in winter. don't wash 'em in summer, IF I happen to, set out on a towel or cookie sheet in the sun.
George