Hi,
I am asking because I ordered one 11 days ago. Problem is I never got a ship notice. A few days ago I sent a email to them and never heard back. A couple days ago I sent a second email. Nothing.
I found a phone number online for reloader gadgets LLC. Tried calling the number several times today at different times. No one ever picked up. So I am curious how the sale and shipping etc went if you purchased one?
Thanks in advance.
Yes I have one. I like it very much. I haven't lost a piece of 7.62x51, 300BLK, or 5.56 to neck cracks or shoulder issues since I began using it in Dec-2017. The propane torch head is a bit touchy and difficult to keep running so I do have to keep an eye on it during the annealing since the flame may sputter to nearly nothing or even go out without warning. . . . . The annealer itself works flawlessly. As long as I keep fiddling with that burner everything does exactly what it is supposed to, every time.
HOWEVER, I ordered the machine about 17 months (SEVENTEEN MONTHS) before I finally received it. It apparently got shipped to an address that was about 12 miles from where I live. The street name there ended in Ct, instead of my Rd designation and not even in the same zip code. . . . Tracking by USPS said "left at mail box". Yeah, that was a trailer park and no one there seemed to remember any package being delivered. When I finally got someone at Annealeez to check it out, they told me that because the package was showing as "delivered" it was out of their hands . . . . . . About 16 months (SIXTEEN MONTHS) months later, I finally got someone's attention there again and they sent a new machine, to the correct address this time.
The machine is very nicely finished and the brass now seems to last forever with me annealing it after every fourth firing. I usually need to flare case necks (because of the flat base or bumpy (Speer Gold Dot) supposed-to-be BT bullets that I like to use. I used to get enough neck cracks by the fourth reloading, that the original 50 round batch of brass was down to maybe 20 or 25 pieces by that time. After that I would just leave the brass laying on the ground and start a new batch. I hate processing a brass case all the way to flaring the neck and have it fail. I don't do that since I started annealing, I "might" lose one or two pieces of brass now after more than ten reloading cycles. Now, I am more likely to retire a case because of thinning walls than for neck and shoulder failures.
Getting your hands on the annealing machine will possibly be more difficult that my own difficulties, or you may not have any difficulties at all. It is a family outfit I think, and they may all be on vacation right now. They don't charge your card until they ship though, so checking your credit card account to see if they billed your card would be an indicator of whether they shipped or not. They are hard to get hold of, for sure, but they aren't trying to rip anyone off as near as I can tell (from my own experience). When they finally managed to ship a machine to my correct address they included all their different caliber rotating wheels for free; sort of an apology I guess. Keep trying to contact them, you will get through eventually.
