Thread: Annealing, neck turning all that attention to neck tension and true Centering

Originally Posted by stagstalker

For those who don't have the flash machines, how are you doing your annealing? Ive seen the battery drill and blowtorch method but wonder if your results will be just as inconsistent anyway due to the guesswork involved?

I use a candle myself, my milsurps are too inaccurate to tell if it improves accuracy but I do it to extend case life.

Your question about consistency in annealing goes to the heart of the matter: is annealing a matter of degrees, or is it either achieved or not? If it's a matter of degrees, then an automated machine is the only way to go, if it's mainly a matter of just doing it or not then most methods will do.

I suspect that a lot of what we call "annealing" is actually not "annealing" but "stress relief" which can be achieved at lower temperatures.

Heat Treating of Copper and Copper Alloys