Anneal Nickel Brass????

[Craigman]

I like the idea in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgD5D0Wzu-c

But my question is, Can/should you anneal NICKEL brass?

and does it have same effect?

Ill be doing .308

 

[gamestalker]

I've never tried it, but in my experience nickel sems to be rather brittle. I would think annealing would harden it more thus increasing the brittlness?

 

[MEHavey]

Can/should you anneal NICKEL brass?

You have nickle/brass rifle cases?

 

[doorman]

I run my .308 nickel coated brass through the same process as regular brass. Have not had any issues to date.

 

[Craigman]

You have nickle/brass rifle cases?

Nickel "plated"...sorry

I could only find one thread in search that had to do with actual annealing of these Nickel Plated cases, so I was hoping someone here had tried it.

Was just a thought

I'm leaning toward the NO, DON'T DO IT though. Nickel is definitely harder and I guess it wouldn't make much sense.

 

[jmorris]

I do it all of the time. I built a machine to do the job for me that makes the process consistant. If you are doing them like the guy in your video you won't have very good results as the nickle plating will keep you from seeing the brass alter.

With the setup that I use you are not looking for anything to change it's just a time delay process so every case is identical to each other.

 

[Sunray]

Brass and nickle anneal at different temperatures. Brass at about 600 F, nickel at 800 to 1,000 F. If you heat the cases enough to anneal the nickel, the brass will be too soft to provide neck tension on the bullet.
Don't think I'd bother. Like jmorris says, you won't be able to see the brass.