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Offline Toolpush

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Annealing cases in a oven
« on: September 23, 2003, 12:46:37 AM »
I tried something and maybe others have already done this and can tell me if it works or not. Can brass be annealed in a home oven by broiling  them  for 20 minutes? Is the temperature hot enough?

After tumbling them, I put them in a baking dish and filled it with water so that just the upper part of the case would see the higher temp.  When I thought they were done I shook the pan so that they would fall over. When I trimmed the cases I thought I could feel a difference.

If you try this and don't want a big clean up job in the oven do not use a glass baking dish! I'm glad the wife was taking a long nap! I told her that I cleaned her oven for her when she got up and ask what I had been doing. LOL  :lol: that was a week ago and she hasn't missed her dish yet. Y'all use a metal pan  to avoid the rollin pin.

Due to mess in the bottom of the oven I tumbled them again. Some of "her" black stuff stained my cases a little LOL.
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« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2003, 03:34:31 AM »
Probably won't get them hot enough...are the necks turning red or discoloring at all?  Let use know how if it works out
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« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2003, 07:42:41 AM »
I doubt it would work...BCB
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don't dry clay pigeons in the oven either.
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2003, 08:23:09 AM »
Regarding the mess, don't dry clay pigeons in the oven either.  My friend tried it and had to buy his wife a whole new range - she's never quite forgiven him for that one.  Turns out clay pigeons aren't clay these days but some sort of resin  :eek: .  Lots of black goo and smoke and stink.  And company was coming over - so he got to buy dinner out for the folk too.
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« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2003, 09:20:57 AM »
Why did he have his clay birds in the oven?

It will take awhile to know the results of my experment.  Takes about a half a year for me to use up that many 264 cases and Some of them were splitting already. (they got chunked)
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won't work imho
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2003, 09:56:08 AM »
I'm glad to learn that head and web have been protected by water.

Max temperature of the oven is not sufficient, and part of the heat of the cases' dry part will be transmitted to the water - the water evaporates and the steam cools the dry section again.

But it's a funny story anyway.
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« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2003, 04:17:25 AM »
:eek: Makes me feel better to know I'm not the only one that is having trouble with split necks in the 264, more so then with my other cartridges.
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« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2003, 01:49:52 PM »
Glad I brightened your day waitaminit. Cool handle. I have gotten by with it so far. the water never came to a boil the steam happened when part of the dish and a bunch of cases went to the bottom of the oven!

 
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 I made a wire feeler and I can not detect any stretching.  Case neck splits have been where all of my 264 cases fail at for years.  I'm wondering have I been wasting good brass by not annealing? I guess I'll find out when I have a head separation, if I'm wrong.  I have been thinking that with annealing that cases might be usable for more than 3-4 firings if they were annealed.

Can one anneal nickle cases?
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