Lyman Wet Tumbler Leak Solution

[ssgross]

I'm not in a hurry am I

LOL. I broke down and bought a dryer the other year. I'm not in a hurry, but when towels full of drying brass are lying around the house the Mrs. gets in a hurry to have me done with it.

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[browningautorifle]

towels full of drying brass are lying around the house

There was that, mine didn't seem to mind and there's no kids or pets to investigate. Took a night or day to dry and the sit and sort them from there.

[Bruce_in_Oz]

I used to lay a towel on top of our old electric hot-water heater, which was quite large and stood in its own alcove in my workshop.

When it started generously leaking onto the floor, we replaced it with an "outside-rated" one of more modest dimensions, so it is back to sun-drying on old towels spread out on the lawn.

Those Lyman pins are a great polishing aid, but they are expensive and get into odd places in the brass, (not so much with 9mm cases).

I bought one of those hand-cranked rotary media separators (the cheap blue one) to do a primary separation and "slow spin-dry". This gets most of the pins and water out. The next step is to use a fairly powerful old magnet from an expired loudspeaker driver to sweep up the ones among the dried cases on the towel.

[browningautorifle]

Those Lyman pins are a great polishing aid, but they are expensive

They're $85CDN for a 5LB bag here. I took the best care of them.

I bought one of those hand-cranked rotary media separators

That's what I got too, they're designed for use with the pins.

a fairly powerful old magnet

I had a handle magnet to go with, it worked better than my eyes to find the pins.