Thread: Brass Annealing

Originally Posted by 25 /08 IMP

The 42 is the speed setting which is adjustable depending on what Cal you are doing...............

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?