Thread: 22 Hornet - Over Length Fired Once Cases?

Originally Posted by sneeze

Yeah Im always puzzled by the candle annealing. It take 6-7 seconds of rotating a case in front of a butane torch to get it to annealing temp . An average butane torch puts out thermal units in the vicinity of 100,000 yet a candle can supposedly do the same job with less than 1% of the output?
I tried it some time ago with templaq on the inside of the neck on a 280ai case. I couldn't get it to activate even 450deg deg templaq before it became way to hot to hold at the base.
Maybe the thin hornet basss is more suitable to very low outputs?

But it doesn't need to be that hot to anneal brass. The candle method works, (though I use a leather glove.) Brass cases candle-annealed and resized to different calibers works, while without the necks crack, so it does make a difference.