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I was in the same camp as you until 2021 when two things happened for me, both peaking my interest in annealing: 1) Brass became nearly...

As far as quantifying the process, a member of the forum I followed to build my annealer had access to a Vickers Hardness Tester and...

I became interested in annealing in 2021, and like you was dismayed by varying opinions in the shooting community. Due to my engineering...

Here are the facts. Brass will definitely work harden through the process of sizing, firing and sizing again repeatedly. Brass can...

Our gun club has found that the best policy is to anneal and prep our brass after each firing, as this provides best consistency...

Yeah, that post was with tongue-in-cheek. AMP machines are awesome and yes the biggest complaint I have heard is cost. Some users also...

Not me, but I doubt I would have regretted a Benchsource either. There are cost effective and high quality options available for...

Im going to guess the story behind that was an expensive lesson in group size reduction... 🙃

Apparently there has been 😉...sorry, couldn't resist.

The only... only, reason to quench hot annealed brass is to prevent the heat from moving down to the case head via convection, where you...

I agree with Arkansasdad, keep it simple at first. I started annealing with a torch, socket and drill. I found it made a measurable...

Even nwmnbowhunter stated here if you just wanted to try annealing to use the socket and torch method, it works and it works fine. The...

As Koda_ pointed out, the temp range for annealing is very large, as long as you get at least a slight red glow, you have "relaxed" the...

I built my own induction annealer (AMP type) for $300 following this thread: I drop the case in and about 2.5 seconds later the...