Annealing Neck sized brass

fiver

Well-Known Member
so I'm the only one that bought a machine to gain repeatability and be able to time everything out.
I figured the money I spent on it would be returned some time down the road when we couldn't find brass anywhere, or when it got to a buck a case.
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Hell Rick, I shoulda dropped off a bunch of brass for annealing. Now ya tell me.
 

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
I do the rotate in fingers, over a candle, until too hot to hold, drop in a box, wipe off
the soot just before sizing. Same trigger, when a batch of 100 roun

If you notice that the first run after sizing is "wonky", just size, then expand, then size
a second time, should get the hardness back where you need it, no need to have bad
ammo one cycle.
 

JWFilips

Well-Known Member
Pistolero:
Thanks! all my different rifle brass is already moving through there cycle but you can bet I will use your advise the next sets of annealings
So simple but I never even gave it a thought....thanks for the tip
Jim
 

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
You are welcome. If one cycle doesn't get you the neck condition you want, expand/resize it
twice. Brass readily work hardens, and is easily softened, but it is difficult to
get a real consistent anneal by hand methods.

I'm thinking about building one of those machines, a neat design on the other site, two
adjustable speed motors, a v-stack of brass with a slotted single "picker" drum feeding an open
drum which the case rolls inside, neck in the flame, until an opening in the drum reaches it
and the case drops out. Pretty simple, two motors with solids state speed controllers,
some relatively simple hardware, a particle board back plate and a torch head.
 
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