check out 6mmbr's website on annealing. Very good article if you have the time.
Yes it is. It is the article I recommend to my buddy, I myself am going to read it again, it has been a few years.
Not really.
Temp lacquer is always better. Color is deceptive. Every time you anneal the color is different. You get less color with every annealing because the minerals that induce the color burn off. So you tend to over do it.
Good to know. I will give the temp lacquer a try also on some 6.5x47 brass I have that is on its 4th firing
I would recommend practicing with the templaq until you can get a feel for it at the very least. I think it would be pretty hard to spin that case where the neck is heated evenly all the way around without some sort of machine. If you heat the bottom of that case too much.........
I feel like I myself have been annealing at the right temperatures and been pulling the brass before it gets to hot just from the extended case life I have got out of some .223 Winchester brass I have worked with, but I will try the lacquer the next time I anneal to know for sure. Eventually I will get an annealing machine, but for now I'm sticking with the drill. I understand it cannot match machine consistency, but it seems to have benifits over not annealing at all.