Considering all the other gizmo's you've come up with, it is a bit primitive,,,How "green" of me, regular old tree hugger....
Lyman brass dryer
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doubleh
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In my case it would be just something else sitting around in my way and I already have enough of those. Sun and wind do an excellent and fast job of drying things here. On the rare gloomy, damp days I can afford to wait. The sunshine will return shortly and the wind is almost always blowing. I did learn years ago to use a heavy steel pan and not an aluminum one to contain the brass. One whirlwind and it's all to do again.
SingleActionAndrew
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I got a dehydrator on clearance at my local hardware store. Easily holds 200 45acp per try and came with 5 trays
buddyd157
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YES, i only use at the most 1 tray..i set the timer for like 1 to 2 hours . (depends on how many is in the tray)
i got mine at Amazon, same price as MidwayUSA, but free shipping with Amazon Prime.
you'll like it......
tightgroup tiger
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I bought this toaster oven at Wallmart for $19.95. it will hold 200 rounds of pistol brass and will dry it in about 15 minutes. It has a mechanical timer and is pretty cheaply made but it works great for drying brass.
archeryrob
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I got an old Wesco dehydrator that I upgraded to a Meat one for jerky and still don't use it like this. The pins get "washed" every time I wash some cases. Little soap and a little lemon powder.
Fluffed on a drying towel and laid on another get the water spots off the cases. That the worst thing that happens if I don't and water spotted cases fire just like the extra shiny ones.
Fluffed on a drying towel and laid on another get the water spots off the cases. That the worst thing that happens if I don't and water spotted cases fire just like the extra shiny ones.
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Considering all the other gizmo's you've come up with, it is a bit primitive,,,
I don't have anywhere to plug anything else in.
No, its just fast, easy and free. If I could just set lead in the Sun and it would turn into bullets, I'd do that too.
salpal48
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Purchaed one years ago , I find it works Great
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gwpercle
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That is exactly what my old food dehydrator looks like ... I have several extra trays and it works just as well for drying jerky as brass . Find a old used dehydrator at a yard sale or thrift store and save some big bucks !
Gary
gwpercle
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That's all it is ... with a big increase in Price !
My jerky maker can dry brass ... just got some new trays for brass ... don't want to mess up my Jerky makin trays !!!
Gary
LocoGringo
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I guess I'm cheap. I bought a $6 hot plate from Goodwill that has a dial temperature setting that I set somewhere around 300 degrees and use a wooden spoon to "stir" the brass for a few minutes. After everything is dry (less than 10 minutes, easily), I remove them using a pair of needle nose pliers and place them in a cheap aluminum cooking pan to cool. After the brass is done, I dump the pins in, agitate and let them cook for a few minutes until they don't stick to the bottom anymore (because they're dry) and place them in an aluminum pan to cool before placing them back in the Harbor Freight drums. The worst I get is the hard water in East Tennessee leaves a little bit of residue on the brass which affects nothing but appearance.
N555
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I just use a wire mesh baking tray and my oven.
TinNePa
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I have the F.A. dryer and like it. I can easily fit 1000 nines in it. I like using the dryer because when I’m processing brass, I like to get it completed in one sitting. I may not get back to reloading for weeks or months.
Captain*kirk
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I guess I chose the Lyman unit because;
1) it was on sale
2) I liked the timer idea
3) I prefer the rectangular trays
I dried brass once outside. It worked ok but wasted a lot of time and left water spots. I know better than to try to put anything in the oven I can't eat...that's the wife's domain. I don't mess with her kitchen and she leaves my reloading stuff alone. Works out well most of the time.
The cost of a happy wife is well-worth the price of a brass dryer!
PWC
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Best statement yet.
Captain*kirk
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I guess 'need' is a speculative term. Of course nobody "needs" a brass dryer, but having dried brass in the sun and finding water still present in bottleneck cases after a day or two is a real drag, especially when I'm all hyped to load those cases. And here in the Midwest, drying wet cases in the sun doesn't work so well 6 months out of the year, January especially. It's a nice perk to flip a switch and have warm, bone-dry brass in under 30 minutes. Just sayin'.
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