Induction Annealer Project,

[Sean the Nailer]

For annealing, as has been touted over the years, there's the:

Flame - be-it cordless drill or automated machine
Hot Salt - by hand and contestable as I understand it so far,
Induction - sorta-automated (semi-auto???) and well over a grand in cost, to start.

But with all these 'induction cookers/hotplates' that we're seeing in the shops for around $100-200.00.... has anyone taken one apart and adapted it to 'our' needs?

Just an idea I've been bouncing around, and wondering if I was the only one. As a hobby and as a project, I could see doing this. But seeing as I'm not a professional annealerologist, I just can't dish-out that kinda scratch for a commercial unit, at the moment.

 

[PinesAndProjectiles]

I made one of these. It works pretty well. Fairly easy to do, even if you're not mechanically inclined.

$75 DIY Automatic Case Annealer Project Complete! Plans and parts list included!

With my new wildcat endeavors, being able to anneal cases is a must so I did some research and came across some plans from an Australian shooting forum, so I decided to put one together. I'm just waiting on some tempilaq to get the time right for the various calibers I will use this for, but...

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[antithesis]

The accurateshooter forum has pages and pages on peoples induction projects. It is over a year old and contains pretty much everything that can be learned about it.

 

[PatMiles]

Love my AMP!

 

[Sean the Nailer]

Love my AMP!

I've heard nothing bad about them at all, and I'm not knocking the product. They're priced right up there with Prometheus though, and they too are out of my realm of possibility. Hence the topic quest.

We have real winters here, and I'm trying to 'avoid' having more flames in the house. Hence the induction train of thought. And with these 'low-cost' cookers that are out there, it just got me to thinking of putting something together. And I wondered whether anyone else here has, as well.

Or am I leading this one-man parade/tirade/revolution?

 

[antithesis]

I started to go down the path of building my own. I have everything needed but a case. For me it was a project that kept getting bigger as I wanted to automate it using a rasperry pi. I gave up after figuring out that the supports inside the case were going to take me weeks to mill. So now I have about $500 in parts that I will never use, and an AMP

 

[Ryridesmotox]

I have about $100 in mine...

It's an induction annealer. Put the components into a 50 cal can.

Thread on here, I followed this build list.

Homemade Induction Annealer

Over the last couple of days I put together an induction annealer setup. All components minus the coil were sourced from Amazon. I turned the coil myself from solid copper wire to ensure proper inductance and distance to the case. The power supply is 24V/15A. Switching frequency of the...

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