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A question about anealing?
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<blockquote data-quote="bushmotornv" data-source="post: 1841593" data-attributes="member: 72331"><p>I'm not saying that the salt bath is completely safe,but the case holder covers most of the pot. Only the cartridge ports are open to the top. The only real danger is the carry off salt dripping onto whatever surface is above your water pail. As far as quality of the anneal, I annealed old military 06 cases with an unknown number of firings on them. The discoloration(which we all know varies by manuf) can be as dark as you like,per time in the bath. 10 seconds per case made a tremendous difference in the sizing of the cases. And the head never got hot enough that you couldn't handle the case with bare fingers. Perfect...maybe not...but it is easy to maintain consistency of the process. From my experience, cases that have been cleaned with ultrasound(I like the Hornady solution) anneal better because the carbon residue has been removed from the inside of the case. And polished cases do not carry off as much salt. And FWIW,you can over anneal a case by running oo high a bath temp,and too log a soak time. Ask me how i know this.Just my humble observations after using the SBA method.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bushmotornv, post: 1841593, member: 72331"] I'm not saying that the salt bath is completely safe,but the case holder covers most of the pot. Only the cartridge ports are open to the top. The only real danger is the carry off salt dripping onto whatever surface is above your water pail. As far as quality of the anneal, I annealed old military 06 cases with an unknown number of firings on them. The discoloration(which we all know varies by manuf) can be as dark as you like,per time in the bath. 10 seconds per case made a tremendous difference in the sizing of the cases. And the head never got hot enough that you couldn't handle the case with bare fingers. Perfect...maybe not...but it is easy to maintain consistency of the process. From my experience, cases that have been cleaned with ultrasound(I like the Hornady solution) anneal better because the carbon residue has been removed from the inside of the case. And polished cases do not carry off as much salt. And FWIW,you can over anneal a case by running oo high a bath temp,and too log a soak time. Ask me how i know this.Just my humble observations after using the SBA method. [/QUOTE]
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