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Best way to anneal brass?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ozzieman" data-source="post: 255146" data-attributes="member: 14719"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The only cases that I anneal are 6 mm Remington. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">I was taught a simple process over 25 years ago from a man that knew more about firearms than any one I have ever met. He had his own reloading business along with manufacturing lead bullets.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">His simple way was to take an old ice cube tray, metal, and fill the tray to ¾ to 1 inch of warm water.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">With the fired primers still in, set the cases in the water, case mouth up, you do not want them to fill with water. This is important that they do not have water in them or they will turn into steam engines.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Next take a normal hardware store canister blow torch, like one used for removing paint and heat the top of each case until they have a soft glow. Not bright, just a soft red glow. For a 6mm REM the top ½ inch of the case should be heated.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Then you let them cool slowly on there own and you're done.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The tops of the cases have a darkened slightly cloudy aria.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The water keeps the high pressure bottom aria of the case from annealing.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">It's worked for me for over 25 years and although I don't push my 6mm to earth shaking velocities, I do get a good number of reloads this way.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">One note I want to add, you need to practice with the blow torch so that it will heat the case but not knock it over.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">I also use junk cases when I start to get the temperature and the torch just right.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">It works.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ozzieman, post: 255146, member: 14719"] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]The only cases that I anneal are 6 mm Remington. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]I was taught a simple process over 25 years ago from a man that knew more about firearms than any one I have ever met. He had his own reloading business along with manufacturing lead bullets.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]His simple way was to take an old ice cube tray, metal, and fill the tray to ¾ to 1 inch of warm water.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]With the fired primers still in, set the cases in the water, case mouth up, you do not want them to fill with water. This is important that they do not have water in them or they will turn into steam engines.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]Next take a normal hardware store canister blow torch, like one used for removing paint and heat the top of each case until they have a soft glow. Not bright, just a soft red glow. For a 6mm REM the top ½ inch of the case should be heated.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]Then you let them cool slowly on there own and you’re done.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]The tops of the cases have a darkened slightly cloudy aria.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]The water keeps the high pressure bottom aria of the case from annealing.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman]It’s worked for me for over 25 years and although I don’t push my 6mm to earth shaking velocities, I do get a good number of reloads this way.[/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]One note I want to add, you need to practice with the blow torch so that it will heat the case but not knock it over.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]I also use junk cases when I start to get the temperature and the torch just right.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=2][FONT=Times New Roman]It works.[/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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