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 8X72r 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.

 

[rickm]

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=https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reloadingsolutions.com%2Fcdn%2Fshop%2Fproducts%2Fkms-chpa-case-holder-power-adapter_R_49a74801-06d5-42a7-8c45-f68404cee31e_600x600.jpg%3Fv%3D1577445902&tbnid=dfA3pNpsJVq8YM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reloadingsolutions.com%2Fproducts%2Fk-m-case-holder-power-adapter-without-shell-holder&docid=pEpU7dXnCegtqM&w=600&h=600&itg=1&hl=en&kgs=ca2976d97eb5d579&shem=igass&source=sh/x/gs/m3/5&utm_campaign=57165-or-igacx-web-shrbtn-iga-sharing&utm_source=igadl,igass,sh/x/gs/m3/5


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You have to use the Lee auto prime shell holder or something similar with that not just a regular shell holder

 

[dennishoddy]

You have to use the Lee auto prime shell holder or something similar with that not just a regular shell holder

I’m not home now. But if I was, Lee made a device for a drill motor that was just what I thought this unit was. I’ll take a pic tomorrow.
8 hours waiting at the VA in OKC to take one test is insane.

 

[swampratt]

I made things to hold my brass.
I want quick in and out so a socket worked well as did a piece of copper tubing with a pin through it to keep the shell from dropping too deep.

Anymore I just use my fingers.
For .223 and my wide flame I can do one in each hand at the same time.


I anneal every time.
Not because I am afraid of split necks but because I get consistent neck tensions and without that my groups suffer.

If you are just banging steel plates at 200 yards it is not a big deal to anneal all the time.
But I am ate up with it and my goal is all the bullets in a ragged hole.
I very seldom get that but it is a goal.

Annealing every time for me helps to eliminate fliers.