Are Wet Tumblers worth it?

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Re: Are Wet Tumblers worth it?

Post by bladeracer » 06 Sep 2026, 8:01 am

mchughcb wrote:I put in oven force fan at 85 for an hour to dry.


It was suggested to me last week that doing the final rinse with very hot water will cause them to dry very quickly. I haven't tried it myself yet.
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Re: Are Wet Tumblers worth it?

Post by Fester » 06 Sep 2026, 4:09 pm

I do the quick method rinse and it aids drying so much that I just leave them in the garage if the sun is not out, and they still seem to always be dry the next day. It also stops those water marks you can get when slow-dried.
They are standing base up in the cardboard drying box so they do drain 100%.

I just keep the metho and reuse it; I used to pour it back into the bottle, but now I just put a lid on the ice cream container.
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Re: Are Wet Tumblers worth it?

Post by deye243 » 06 Sep 2026, 10:54 pm

Fester wrote:I do the quick method rinse and it aids drying so much that I just leave them in the garage if the sun is not out, and they still seem to always be dry the next day. It also stops those water marks you can get when slow-dried.
They are standing base up in the cardboard drying box so they do drain 100%.

I just keep the metho and reuse it; I used to pour it back into the bottle, but now I just put a lid on the ice cream container.

I used to do the same with metho very quick no watermarks and you can use the same metho about five times before it gets to water logged
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Re: Are Wet Tumblers worth it?

Post by Damo300 » 07 Sep 2026, 1:35 am

If you do a final spin with water and citric acid, you can simply blow the wet cases out with compressed air.
Dry in seconds.
Brass will not blemish.
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Re: Are Wet Tumblers worth it?

Post by bladeracer » 07 Sep 2026, 8:14 am

Damo300 wrote:If you do a final spin with water and citric acid, you can simply blow the wet cases out with compressed air.
Dry in seconds.
Brass will not blemish.


Why put acid in the final spin? I rinse the acid out of the brass before letting it dry.
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Re: Are Wet Tumblers worth it?

Post by Damo300 » 07 Sep 2026, 9:13 am

bladeracer wrote:
Damo300 wrote:If you do a final spin with water and citric acid, you can simply blow the wet cases out with compressed air.
Dry in seconds.
Brass will not blemish.


Why put acid in the final spin? I rinse the acid out of the brass before letting it dry.


Yep, each to their own.

I tip the whole show in a bucket and let the tap run in there while I pick the brass out, so I guess I am rinsing the acid before the blower.

I also just leave the media in the bucket till it's dry, then return to the container it packaged in.
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