barnfrog
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Not meaning to sound snotty, but what is the benefit of steaming? The water will still evaporate at temps below below the boiling point.
It's a way to get it done faster and more complete. Water cannot stay in liquid form at ambient pressure above boiling.Not meaning to sound snotty, but what is the benefit of steaming? The water will still evaporate at temps below below the boiling point.
I doubt anyone has coal fired ovens anymore; this was written in 1937.
What's cool is taking cold dry brass outside and watching it bead up with water as the ambient humidity condenses on it.You got that right! For that matter, probably not many here have ever seen a dime store. Anyway, I'm with Barnfrog (huh?). You don't really have to get your brass to boiling temp to dry it, although I admit hotter is better up to the point you start annealing it. If you use a blow dryer on your hair, you aren't actually heating your scalp to 212F. Likewise, if you lay your brass in the sun for an afternoon (at least here in California in the summer) it will get plenty dry by dinner time. YMMV
Tim
That's a fact. In San Diego you can set brass in the sun for a few hours and its dry. In the winter setting it outside here just means frozen wet brass. I intend to get it as dry as possible.You got that right! For that matter, probably not many here have ever seen a dime store. Anyway, I'm with Barnfrog (huh?). You don't really have to get your brass to boiling temp to dry it, although I admit hotter is better up to the point you start annealing it. If you use a blow dryer on your hair, you aren't actually heating your scalp to 212F. Likewise, if you lay your brass in the sun for an afternoon (at least here in California in the summer) it will get plenty dry by dinner time. YMMV
Tim
What's cool is taking cold dry brass outside and watching it bead up with water as the ambient humidity condenses on it.
LOL!!! It's just as humid in the winter around here. The air's got enough salt in it not to freeze even when the ambient air is cold enough. That's why when we get snow, it don't stick. It has to be below zero for it to snow when you live between two big bodies of water. Where I'm at now, at 70F water condenses - the "dew point" - but where I grew up on the East Coast it was more like 65F. Depends on where you are in the state and whether you're close to the Gulf or the Atlantic.Yes, you've got me on that one. That's why I qualified my statement by mentioning California. In parts of the country where it's humid in summer, all bets are off.
Tim
I thought parts of Cali were as tropical as us here in the South? Never been there - well, drove through Bakersfield once on accident cause I got lost and tequila was involved - but I was kinda under the impression parts of Cali were more "wet"? Probably wrong.