Cartridge Case Drying Rack

[Hawk]

By the way, leaving them in the bed of a truck with a black bed liner in Texas would work.
Just need to monitor them and remove before the brass starts to melt!

 

[popper]

i just use those plastic pistol ammo holders (not the Styrofoam ones) I find in the trash at the range. I like free stuff.

 

[Canuck Bob]

Ben, I know this is a little old but how have those wooden dowels held up. Also anything you would to improve after steady use? The box liner is real clever indeed. My liner can get too hot to touch without a real good reason. You southerners must have smoking hot liners!

 

[Gary]

I would think Powder Coated nails would work.

 

[Canuck Bob]

Good idea Gary. The wood dowel system does appeal too, because I prefer woodworking and the shop is well tooled up.

 

[Intheshop]

I blow m out with shop air.

Very simple straight FWD annealing setup.Trigger "stopped" with threaded bolt on a corded drill motor....mounted in a swiveling bench vise.Cases go in a turned aluminum socket,turn vise over a prope bttl flame to a fixed stop,do the count,turn back pull out case drop in water.Blow m out with air.

 

[300BLK]

The easy way is just to shake them off and throw them into a vibratory tumbler with untreated corn cob media for about 30 minutes.

 

[Ian]

By the way, leaving them in the bed of a truck with a black bed liner in Texas would work.
Just need to monitor them and remove before the brass starts to melt!

Hand towel spread across a cookie sheet, pour brass out onto that after tumbling in a bath towel hammock-style. Put in sun, as you say remove before brass melts. In 5 min direct sun the cases will be so hot you can't pick them up to hold. If rinsed in rainwater or distilled water, no spots.

 

[Pistolero]

Good rack design, but too slow for my needs. Cleaning up about 4k lightly stained but new LC 5.56 brass, I need a faster method.

About 400 fit in a gallon plastic coffee container, soak in Lemishine for 20 min, then pour out with 1/4 hardware cloth to strain, dump
on my large concrete parking apron in the midday sun. Dry in about 20 minutes on a sunny day, in batches of 400.
Still need a short tumble to clean up the pink Cu areas left over from the reduction reaction. About 20 minutes with Nu Finish and they are golden and slick.

Bill

 

[KHornet]

All systems work! It is just what works best for you.

Paul

 

[M3845708Bama]

I run a dehumidifier in machine shop area of basement to prevent rusting on machines and tools. I built a rack to hold wire trays I found at a local bussiness equipment store. The outlet air from the dehuminifier blows across the wire racks. 4 to 6 hours and brass and water dropped bullets are completely dry.

 

[Ben]

Ben, I know this is a little old but how have those wooden dowels held up.

Fine, zero problems.

Ben

 

[bpsmoke]

Test tube rack.

 

[freebullet]

Nice work! Think I'd get dizzy if I had to load a few of those trays tho