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<blockquote data-quote="BoatTail" data-source="post: 1585627" data-attributes="member: 74670"><p>Until a couple months ago I had not heard of this. I start this thread in hopes of saving others from the trouble, confusion, wasted time trying to figure out what was wrong and cost of this mistake. While not an expert on this, I'm learning quickly and hope others will lend their expertise to help raise the awareness and knowledge of our forum members on this critical process.</p><p></p><p>Dead soft brass happens when we improperly over anneal the case shoulder and neck to try to reverse the impact of case hardening due to multiple firings or when a case is work hardened when converting a case from one cartridge to another.</p><p></p><p>I suggest we share with our Forum members (among other topics) what happens to the case when annealing is done wrong, the wrong and right way to anneal cases, the advantages of annealing, the dangers of improperly over annealing and perhaps discuss some of the commercial and self-made annealer /process options.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]124541[/ATTACH] </p><p>I'll start by showing a picture of my large pile of damaged cases from improper annealing. there are about 250 cases here at $73 per 25 cases for Nosler brass, that's a loss of $730. Because they are mixed the lost is probably closer to $500 to $600.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BoatTail, post: 1585627, member: 74670"] Until a couple months ago I had not heard of this. I start this thread in hopes of saving others from the trouble, confusion, wasted time trying to figure out what was wrong and cost of this mistake. While not an expert on this, I’m learning quickly and hope others will lend their expertise to help raise the awareness and knowledge of our forum members on this critical process. Dead soft brass happens when we improperly over anneal the case shoulder and neck to try to reverse the impact of case hardening due to multiple firings or when a case is work hardened when converting a case from one cartridge to another. I suggest we share with our Forum members (among other topics) what happens to the case when annealing is done wrong, the wrong and right way to anneal cases, the advantages of annealing, the dangers of improperly over annealing and perhaps discuss some of the commercial and self-made annealer /process options. [ATTACH=full]124541[/ATTACH] I’ll start by showing a picture of my large pile of damaged cases from improper annealing. there are about 250 cases here at $73 per 25 cases for Nosler brass, that's a loss of $730. Because they are mixed the lost is probably closer to $500 to $600. [/QUOTE]
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