Appetite for annealing service in South Western Alberta?

[Pathfinder76]

Would this be of interest to anyone? It would likely be a $20-$25 per hundred type of deal. Shipping would likely make it more cost prohibitive for someone unless they had a bunch of brass to do. So mostly local stuff. Not looking at it as a business venture in any way. Just a way to offset costs.

[Deer Hunter]

Would this be of interest to anyone? It would likely be a $20-$25 per hundred type of deal. Shipping would likely make it more cost prohibitive for someone unless they had a bunch of brass to do. So mostly local stuff. Not looking at it as a business venture in any way. Just a way to offset costs.

I hear of people trying this but shipping doesn't make it work. Doing it for local people makes sense, but then charging your friends is petty.

[Dubious]

Could just make one pretty cheap. The plans have been floating around for years.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...X0/mobilebasic

[Deer Hunter]

Originally Posted by Dubious

Could just make one pretty cheap. The plans have been floating around for years.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...X0/mobilebasic

Lots of people just use a propane torch and their fingers. The expensive annealing machine companies are turning heating up an old case into rocket science.

[Ariu]

Originally Posted by Deer Hunter

Lots of people just use a propane torch and their fingers. The expensive annealing machine companies are turning heating up an old case into rocket science.

^^^
this!
Here is brass annealing done in the cheap way.

[marky_mark]

Originally Posted by Ariu

^^^
this!
Here is brass annealing done in the cheap way.

Or you can get an annealeez which are cheap
The AMP machine does it perfect everytime and is superior to the annealeez

[heretohunt]

I think it’s reasonable. There are enough expensive cases or difficult to find that brass is precious. It may just be a bit of a hobbie business that you will enjoy.

[Pathfinder76]

This would be done with an AMP annealer.

[Dean2]

New Lapua 308 brass costs $100 per Hundred, Rem or Win about 70-80. Annealing at 25/100 plus 2 way shipping at even 10 bucks each way means it is easier and not a lot more expensive to just buy new brass, unless you are talking 338 Lapua, 378 Bee type brass. I have been loading for over 50 years, and have never annealed brass, except for case forming with a big neck down.

I predominantly neck size everything. When it gets hard enough to start cracking the necks I toss it out but I have lots of cases that went 20 firings before that became a problem. Two hundred brass even at just 10 firings per, will pretty much wear out many of the hotter cartridges' barrels and I always start with new brass for every new barrel.

If a guy could get it done without having to ship two ways it might be pretty popular.