Thread: annealing help please

Originally Posted by Dama dama

Yeah kinda, not really.
In all honesty, pretty confused by the whole thing really. Surely I can get 5 or 6 reloads out of a peice of brass with out annealing -especially if I need a $1000 machine to do it!

Can one achieve, all be it labour intensively, the same out come with a gas touch from Mitre 10?

They are closer to $2k probably a little over that.
I use hot salt annealing with my brass, sure it's not perfect but it's far better than not annealing at all.
I'm certainly not saying its "perfect" (pun totally intended) and if I could afford an AMP I totally would own one.
You won't achieve the same result with flame or hot salt but keeping the consistency as accurate as humanely possible ie temp and time, will still be better than doing nothing at all.
Now all that being said even though I own a hot salt annealing setup I will probably send my brass away to get AMP annealed with my new project as it is the very best most accurate way to anneal brass.
I don't need to own one there are a few forum members that offer this service as well as a couple handloading clubs that own a machine for members to use, also there is a fella on trademe that offers a postal service so no need to shit the bed on the outlay. If I was annealing 100's or 1000's of cases I would probably bute the bullet (yet another delicious intended pun).
No hate and no I'm not gonna read the book just some perspective from a non AMP owner.