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Do you anneal your cases?
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<blockquote data-quote="tlk" data-source="post: 435792" data-attributes="member: 11397"><p>I had started a thread here a while back about lead annealing of cases, and it turned upsome really good info, graphs and all. I took those graphs and plotted temps and hardness, found out that 700 - 750 is "the zone" and produces the most consistent hardness across the widest temp range. Looking at those graphs you realize that you can go to 800, but you are approaching an area where the case mouth is negatively affected. Pretty high yield thread, and I use that info in my process. That info is good regardless of your method I would think.</p><p> </p><p>I lead anneal, lead never gets below 700 or above 750, prefer 700-725. Tension from case to case is as consistent as I believe it can be because I have controlled everything that I can measure. I do have to clean the cases after the annealing is done, though. I dont think too many are lead annealing so there is relatively little info available on the process.</p><p> </p><p>Hope it helps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tlk, post: 435792, member: 11397"] I had started a thread here a while back about lead annealing of cases, and it turned upsome really good info, graphs and all. I took those graphs and plotted temps and hardness, found out that 700 - 750 is "the zone" and produces the most consistent hardness across the widest temp range. Looking at those graphs you realize that you can go to 800, but you are approaching an area where the case mouth is negatively affected. Pretty high yield thread, and I use that info in my process. That info is good regardless of your method I would think. I lead anneal, lead never gets below 700 or above 750, prefer 700-725. Tension from case to case is as consistent as I believe it can be because I have controlled everything that I can measure. I do have to clean the cases after the annealing is done, though. I dont think too many are lead annealing so there is relatively little info available on the process. Hope it helps. [/QUOTE]
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