Annealing before or after cleaning?
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I use an AMP annealer. I tumble with rice and i dont want any grains falling down the hole. Again, is there any reason not to do it?
Heat is heat. Whatever crap is on the case shoulder will burn regardless of how you heat the case. Do it and report back
How do you find the rice? Is there a particular type you use? Interested because I have a container full of Basmati that the bloody weavels have managed to infest!?And I have a WHOLE LOAD of brass to clean (something to do in lockdown).
Amazon.
A medium grain rice is best, short grains are too squat to get in the small places and long grains are skinny enough to jam in flash holes.
Deprime
SS media clean
Let cases dry
Anneal
Clean first to prevent embedding of carbon or any other abrasive material from becoming embedded in soft brass.
Makes it better between my ears, keeps sizer die cleaner and reduces wear.
That’s my story and I’m sticking with it.
SS media clean
Let cases dry
Anneal
Clean first to prevent embedding of carbon or any other abrasive material from becoming embedded in soft brass.
Makes it better between my ears, keeps sizer die cleaner and reduces wear.
That’s my story and I’m sticking with it.
Shit, i like learning something new ever day..U can tell i don't cook, i had no idea there was different lengths of rice. LOL
I anneal 1st, then tumble.
Main reason is: I dry tumble and anneal with an Annealeez. If I tumble 1st, the cases has a fine dust on them that prevents them from spinning reliably on the Annealeez wheel. I could just wipe each case before I put them on the annealeez. But that's a pain in the ass.
Main reason is: I dry tumble and anneal with an Annealeez. If I tumble 1st, the cases has a fine dust on them that prevents them from spinning reliably on the Annealeez wheel. I could just wipe each case before I put them on the annealeez. But that's a pain in the ass.
Realistically going from ammo box to chamber to box it really doesn’t matter. The brass is seeing the same contamination internally as externally at evan highr temperatures. Now if its range pickup brass thats been on the ground or in the grass its preferable to clean it first since there is possible contamination that will harm the brass.
Finally someone got it right. Shooting is 75% flexin on folks at the range. Also you should put a Lapua sticker on your cheap green ammo box, so people know you don’t fuck around. Bonus flex points for a k&m or 21st century sticker. That’ll get people thinking you have money and time to neck turn em. Then blast like 3 rounds and wait for your barrel to cool for 30 min. That way you can answer all the questions everyone has about your sweet chassis gun, and your reloading techniques.Duh...you clean BEFORE you anneal. You got to have that shiny brass to annealed color contrast that makes them look awesome. It's all about the look of the brass man...
The Weavels ruined my Basmati already so I'm keen to give it a go with a pile of really dirty once fired .223 brass. I was annealing then case prepping and tumbling last to get all the crap out and off the cases from the various stages of prep but it looks like most people tumble early on so I might give it a go.
That's the spirit! Disgusting little mini maggots! I think there's a few live larvae still in there which I'll just leave to be crushed by the brass rollers of the tumbling cases.
It is spelled 'weevil'....and to understand what they are all about....just put a hyphen in their name 'We-Evil'.
Crush them...crush them all!!!
Crush them...crush them all!!!
