Doc:
That ain't nothing.........
A big event around here was 'the time before last' when I washed all the range brass I picked up after a day at the public pistol range.I normally washed all of it in the Kitchen sink, layed it out on the dinner table for a few days to dry, sorted it, then tumbled, and reloaded at my leisure.
In the 6-7 years after I 'unloaded' the first wife--- it was a good system, and worked real well.
However:
After I re-married,
I had to speed up my process of all the 'guy stuff' being in the Kitchen/dining room for weeks at a time.So,,,,,,,,
One day, I came in from the range, washed all the brass I'd scrounged in the sink,
then put it all in the new wife's cake and roasting pans........
Popped them all in the oven to dry real quick instead of laying it all out on the dinning room table for a few days...
I figured:
Water boils off at 212. I need dry brass- real quick.
--------Put brass in oven at 300,,,,
I (should) get 'dry' brass before new wife gets home from work, busts me,
and chews on my 'transom'.
Yep--- you guessed it,
A minute or so after she walks in: "BOOM",,,,,, a cook off in the oven.
It was kind of hard on her cake pans-- but I survived.....
Next time I came in from the range-------- same system, same timing,,,,,,,,,,,
And: "BOOM"!! another live .45ACP cooked off in the oven.........
Since none of it ever went off/detonated- (yet).
Live ammo in the washing machine is no big deal.
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