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Boon Grass Countertop Bottle Drying Rack : Target
I just load up a cookie sheet with the brass and pop it in the oven at 170 F for 20 minutes.
Let see, you handle each and every case and contaminate your kids baby bottles. You should be shot with a dull bullet and have your library card revoked!
Just thought I would get the subject a little heated.
Spread your brass out and it will dry faster.
I just roll them in a bath towel(like a bowling ball) after they come out of the media separator after rinsing, then I transfer to another completely dry bath towel, spread them out and put a cheap box fan on them. But I do 2000-3000 cases at a time so putting each case on one of those fingers would take FOREVER.
They dry in less than five minutes, and if you spread them out the hair drier can't heat them all.
Thanks for the bad idea.
+1, but I generally throw it in the oven once my biscuits are done, the oven is switched off, and the temp is down somewhere <400°F.I just load up a cookie sheet with the brass and pop it in the oven at 170 F for 20 minutes.
LOOKS LIKE IT "MIGHT" BE A LIFETIME SUPPLY,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,maybe? How many is that? And how much dinero?
Uhhh ohhh! Here come the hoards of people who have no idea how annealing works...
A number of other Internet web sites and forums have cited this figure as 482°F, but I believe this is an error resulting from someone transposing the last two digits of Naramore's figure. And once it's on the Interwebs, even an error dons the mantle of truth, which is why I posted an image of the pertinent page instead. 300-350°F will never do your brass any harm, but it will dry it most riki-tic.
I beg to differ....Annealing is as much about time as it is temp. There really is no "magical" number like "482F" you can anneal metals at 300F just as well as you can at 700F or a 1,000,000F. Temp doesn't matter; it's time at temp that matters.
Really easy solution. Laundry bag. Fill it with your wet brass. Hang it above a fan. Done. Summer time, your AC fan is a perfect fix too.
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I beg to differ.
Yes, there really are "magical" numbers because there are temperatures at which the material is either too hot or too cold for (non-phase transformation) annealing to occur. And time is irrelevant when either of those conditions exists.
The annealing of brass starts with getting rid of the old "work-hardened" grain structure. Doing that necessarily means getting the atoms so amped up that they break their molecular bonds. Atoms don't get that excited on their own. Point of fact, they never get that energetic below the lower critical temperature, AKA the lower transformational temperature. It's an intrinsic and immutable property of the material. The odds of brass annealing [MENTION=89035]300[/MENTION]°F is the same as of water boiling @120°F (under 14.7 psia).
I beg to differ.
Yes, there really are "magical" numbers because there are temperatures at which the material is either too hot or too cold for (non-phase transformation) annealing to occur. And time is irrelevant when either of those conditions exists.
The annealing of brass starts with getting rid of the old "work-hardened" grain structure. Doing that necessarily means getting the atoms so amped up that they break their molecular bonds. Atoms don't get that excited on their own. Point of fact, they never get that energetic below the lower critical temperature, AKA the lower transformational temperature. It's an intrinsic and immutable property of the material. The odds of brass annealing [MENTION=89035]300[/MENTION]°F is the same as of water boiling @120°F (under 14.7 psia).
This is correct. All metals have a specific temperature they must reach in order to be annealed. Take a loom at the iron carbon equilibrium (ICE) chart. It is a steel based chart, but it a visual depiction of what the above post is talking about.
iron carbon equilibriym chart - Google Search
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I do the same thing in the summer time. In the winter i just use the register inside the houseBest dryer I have seen is a simple 2x4 square frame with 1/4" wire hardware cloth screen stapled to the bottom about 2' square with a couple scraps on the sides to keep it from sliding off the AC condenser outside. Load up and place over the fan blowing hot air when the AC is running and leave it there for 15 or 30 minutes. Don't have to run anything extra on the light bill to dry, just use the hot air you generate normally.
Doug Giraud
Giraud Tool Company, Inc.
I dunno about you guys and all these drying shenanigans but I've been using a bowl of 95% alcohol for years now. So here's my process: I tumble in SS, then rinse with warm water and drop the rinsed brass into the bowl of alcohol, then I pull them out lay them on a towel and they're dry as a bone as soon as the excess evaporates (few mins on a cold day).
i dont trust the alchohol. it displaces water it does not remove it.
Did you know that whiskey is ethyl alcohol and water? They form hydrogen bonds and when it evaporates water is taken with it. Alcohol is used in lab environments to remove the faintest traces of H20 left from cleaning items. I've used everclear in a pump motor to help burn up water in the gas.
Did you know that whiskey is ethyl alcohol and water? They form hydrogen bonds and when it evaporates water is taken with it. Alcohol is used in lab environments to remove the faintest traces of H20 left from cleaning items. I've used everclear in a pump motor to help burn up water in the gas.
did you know i use large amts of isopropyl alcohol at work every day? i see it displace the water to the btm of the containers.
get a drinking glass. fill it a third with alcohol, then a third with water.put your hand over the top and shake it up. set it down and tell me how full it is.
did you know i use large amts of isopropyl alcohol at work every day? i see it displace the water to the btm of the containers.
get a drinking glass. fill it a third with alcohol, then a third with water.put your hand over the top and shake it up. set it down and tell me how full it is.
that glass and the water is still gonna be there when you quit facepalmin yourself. i got some ammo to load
did you know i use large amts of isopropyl alcohol at work every day? i see it displace the water to the btm of the containers.
get a drinking glass. fill it a third with alcohol, then a third with water.put your hand over the top and shake it up. set it down and tell me how full it is.