Thread: Brass Annealing

Originally Posted by Kiwi Sapper

Okaaaaaaay

But everything needs a constant. Let's work with this...how many seconds does it take for a marked point on your "drum" to rotate 360 degrees at a setting of "42"?

Or have you access to some resource which tells you how long to heat the brass? This is where the skill / knowledge lies, without even allowing for the vagaries of how much heat is being put on the brass by the "torch".

I ask because, I use a manual method reforming 24 gauge brass to .577 /450 Martini Henry in Lee dies.and I count one thousand and one, one thousand and two etc and to date have used 10 to 13 counts coupled with observation of the colour inside of the case. But from failure rates on reforming brass in dies I suspect that I am not allowing enough time.

Further, to me, it seems that brass is brass and the annealing heat time should be the same for all brass, not different for calibers.

Wotcha fink?

I have only just finished this so are yet to do much playing with it to work out times etc.
You can get a product called temperlaque which changes colour with heat to give you an idea.
I was thinkingsmaller cases will need less time as they rotate faster which gives them more time in the flame so may need less time on the timer. That was my thoughts.


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