Thread: annealing help please

Originally Posted by Nasty Factory Trigger

I made my own annealer - alot of watching Erik Cortina, and Reese On The Range - between them two, I started putting bits together and this is my current induction annealer - its still a work on progress but I'm no engineer - will sort a way to drop cases once annealed... All parts sourced from Ali Express, apart from the donor surplus PC case of course.
Say what you will with Ali - but Ive been super impressed with parts and costs when compared to such as AMP products - sure its turn key but shit, Ive saved 3/4 of the costs of an AMP building my own, and has 1/10th second timings.

Whats been the most interesting to find is that brass isn't just brass - one manufacture timings can be very different to another manufacturer of same calibre cases indicating very differing alloy compositions that make up rifle case brass.

Latest additions has been to replace the copper tubing, and add water cooling / pump, radiator etc to keep the coil not burning ya fingers and reduce heat transfer to the ZVS board...

Using a 1.2 kw 36vdc 34 Amp power supply into a 1KW ZVS board...
Still rough n ready - the white is plastic trying to be a cone to help bottom fan airflow directly onto the electronic board to help cooling - as I say, work in progress but damn its good and exacting results every time. I just refer to my list Ive complied so far for timings ands adjust the control timer accordingly for different calibre and manufacture of brass... Oh they differ!!


Happy to help or list parts etc...

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I'd be interested in any info you have on this please. I know someone else that's done it, but different design to yours. I'm wondering if I can get the nest of both