Thread: DIY Annealing

For a cheap setup...
- Deprime without resizing.
- Stand up in a row in a longish tray of water (or in a circular tray on a lazy Susan) ~2/3 of case bodies submerged.
- Move blowtorch along from neck to neck.
-Only THEN resize.

Only real danger is accidentally annealing cartridge bases and you are safe this way from doing that.
As for annealing differences between cartridges (you know, those hypnotic machines on youtube that do it precisely the same way for each case), I understand the case necks are either annealed or they are not, and with the water method you can safely give them a good blast to the neck and shoulder.
They will cool rapid-ish if standing in water, but speed of cooling does not affect annealing, either you got the neck hot enough to soften it (read: undo the work hardening from repeated re-sizings) or you didn't.