Do you dry your SS pins?

[whughett]

Those little pins have tiny tiny legs and wind up everywhere. The gun room floor, the sink drains , the cartridge case container, bottoms of the loading blocks, sometimes wonder if a few don’t even get blasted down range. Started off 5 years ago with 10 pounds probably a few ounces shy now.

 

[rayw1128]

Nope, no need to dry them.

 

[Engineer1911]

And just what is a surgically clean brass FART? I'm almost afraid to ask. Frankford Arsenal Rotating Tumbler?

 

[Dudedog]

My Cyclone came with a strainer, I just wash them off in the strainer and let them dry outside.

 

[LocoGringo]

It never occurred to me to not dry them. I probably do it a bit different than everyone else here. I don't have the big, fancy drum (maybe soon I will), so I use the small drums from Harbor Freight. I rinse everything in the drum, pick out the brass and heat them at around 250 degrees in a cheap hot plate bought for $6 to dry them. After drying the brass quickly, I pluck them out with pliers and set them aside in an aluminum baking pan to cool. While the brass is cooling, I pour the pins in and dry them in minutes. While the pins are drying, I wipe out the drum with a paper towel to make sure there is no leftover residue. After describing my system, I think I might have a touch of OCD, but my brass is CLEAN and my pins are all present and accounted for and none of them have rusted. It works for me.

 

[Skeeter300]

I put the brass and pins in the sun to dry. I store my pins in a drawer so I don't want any moisture in my cabinet.