Annealing brass

[Camo]

I didn’t bother with it back in the day as brass was cheap and abundant but have started sneaking once fired brass: I use a propane torch and a drill. Nothing fancy

Looking for your thoughts and how /when you anneal your brass.

 

[Rez Exelon]

When I do the drill method, the trick is get a hex to socket adapter. Find the socket that cradles the base of the brass best. Set the torch up in a fixed spot, fire it up. Load a round to the socket (I like the deep sockets personally) and place in flame, while spinning. Then when annealed, drop it out and queue another in.

 

[Firpo]

I use a torch as well. If we’re talking rifle brass I hold it in my fingers and spin the brass until it gets hot enough that I don’t want to hold it anymore then set it down and grab another. That seems to do the trick just fine. I have a couple cartridges that haven’t been made in 100 years so when I spend the time, money and effort to make my own I want those suckers to last as long as possible. For instance here are a gaggle of 9.3X72r Hobson’s next to a 30-06 for reference.

 

[dennishoddy]

Here is a little tool to hold those cases. Just slip a standard shell holder into it and anneal away.


https://search.app.goo.gl/?link=htt...a-sharing&utm_source=igadl,igass,sh/x/gs/m3/5

 

[turkeyrun]

Anneal when working the brass.

When I make 7x57 from .270, anneal, resize, trim.

 

[Camo]

When I do the drill method, the trick is get a hex to socket adapter. Find the socket that cradles the base of the brass best. Set the torch up in a fixed spot, fire it up. Load a round to the socket (I like the deep sockets personally) and place in flame, while spinning. Then when annealed, drop it out and queue another in.

That’s my current method

 

[Camo]

I use a torch as well. If we’re talking rifle brass I hold it in my fingers and spin the brass until it gets hot enough that I don’t want to hold it anymore then set it down and grab another. That seems to do the trick just fine. I have a couple cartridges that haven’t been made in 100 years so when I spend the time, money and effort to make my own I want those suckers to last as long as possible. For instance here are a gaggle of 9.3X72r Hobson’s next to a 30-06 for reference.

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Nice work. Very rare indeed.