Great job on both the workstation and the video. A quick comment on the earlier post about whether dunking the case into water will harden it.....from what I have read brass cannot be hardened by heat, only softened. Dunking it in water has no effect on the hardness, like it would with steel.
@biplanes4ever dunking the case into water is not intended to harden or soften the case in anyway. It is to cool the case down so the heat does not continue down the body of the case to the case head where if that got to hot and annealed it could cause weakness in the case head and eventually case head separation when the round would be fired....BOOM....
i usually drop my metal into a bucket of sand after instead of water ive found rockwell hardness to be significantly higher when i drop them into water immediately after.
I love your annealing work station. Could you please post a video showing how that was built, especially the way you control the speed of he drill. I must say a beautiful idea. Well done!!
I did have a question though, doesn't putting the brass immediately into water harden the brass vs annealing? I guess I am speaking of a tempering effect?
@r1ngmasta I am no metallurgist and have read the same thing online. But as I am following Hornady's instructions I am putting my trust in their research that dropping the brass into a pan of water is really only done to cool the brass so that the heat does not travel further down the case body and towards the head where it can lead to many dangers.
Great job on both the workstation and the video. A quick comment on the earlier post about whether dunking the case into water will harden it.....from what I have read brass cannot be hardened by heat, only softened. Dunking it in water has no effect on the hardness, like it would with steel.
biplanes4ever 3 weeks ago
@biplanes4ever dunking the case into water is not intended to harden or soften the case in anyway. It is to cool the case down so the heat does not continue down the body of the case to the case head where if that got to hot and annealed it could cause weakness in the case head and eventually case head separation when the round would be fired....BOOM....
shootNbreeze 3 weeks ago
Extremely well thought out !
PRACERZ 1 month ago
Very well Done Mate...
mojustin 1 month ago
i usually drop my metal into a bucket of sand after instead of water ive found rockwell hardness to be significantly higher when i drop them into water immediately after.
steve19745 2 months ago
I love your annealing work station. Could you please post a video showing how that was built, especially the way you control the speed of he drill. I must say a beautiful idea. Well done!!
ethorn62 2 months ago
Good video and I like your workstation .
thetargetmaster 5 months ago
Very good video and a well designed work area.
I did have a question though, doesn't putting the brass immediately into water harden the brass vs annealing? I guess I am speaking of a tempering effect?
Again great video and thank you for sharing.
r1ngmasta 1 year ago
@r1ngmasta I am no metallurgist and have read the same thing online. But as I am following Hornady's instructions I am putting my trust in their research that dropping the brass into a pan of water is really only done to cool the brass so that the heat does not travel further down the case body and towards the head where it can lead to many dangers.
shootNbreeze 10 months ago