look ok for my first time anealling ?

[txgunner00]

ya i like that thing too,,,,,tx how many loads u getting out of them

6 so far. The only brass I have lost was from partial head separation but no split necks.

[GregP42]

I made this to ease annealing by hand. No need to rotate the case & it speeds up the process a bit. Now I just need to incorporate it into a machine like the new Giraud annealer.

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Dude! That freaking rocks! You should post some details about it for the rest of us poor souls, if I had one of those I wouldn't need to wait till I cast bullets.

Greg

[txgunner00]

Dude! That freaking rocks! You should post some details about it for the rest of us poor souls, if I had one of those I wouldn't need to wait till I cast bullets.

Greg

LOL. Thanks.

I picked up a couple of cheap Bernzomatic torches and some brass NPT fittings & nipples from a local mom & pop propane store. I cut the torch heads off at the red line & removed the remaining tube from one of the valves by melting the solder (blue arrow).



I soldered the torch heads into fittings which if I remember correctly were 3/8" female NPT to 1/4" male NPT adapters. I also soldered a short 1/4" NPT nipple into the valve.



Everything else was assembled using 1/4" brass NPT fittings & nipples. The 2 on the top are 5" each & the two on the sides are 2". I had to use 2 nipples and a coupler for the top because they didn't have a long enough piece of pre-threaded pipe.



It took me much longer to figure out what parts I needed than it did to assemble them. I think I have about $35 in it.


I have learned to run the torches low on small brass because it heats them pretty fast. Well worth all the effort though. I get much more consistent results than before using the drill method.

[GregP42]

Thank you so much for posting that tx, I will be off to the hardware store on my day off

Greg