Annealing White Paper - Provided by Starline

[markr6754]

Gents, I hope this is helpful to some of you. I found it to provide the answers that I needed, but I'm also pretty new to this environment.

I asked Starline for guidance on using their Basic Grendel Brass to be form 6mm ARC. My follow-up question was answered. The included file is attached.

Mark,

Here is a great article on annealing. I would suggest trying to only go a 1/4"-3/8" below where the shoulder will be when annealing for 6mm ARC. The ARC has very little body taper so it doesn't need too much below the shoulder.


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Hunter Pilant
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Starline Inc.
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[Varminterror]

That paper has been making the rounds for a long time - note Ken put that together almost 15 years ago! Is he still selling his machines?

 

[jmorris]

That’s consistent with the video in post #6 of your last thread on the subject.

 

[Chuck R.]

That paper has been making the rounds for a long time - note Ken put that together almost 15 years ago! Is he still selling his machines?

Ken passed away a few years ago, but Brian Crawford, the inventor of the BC1000 (Hence the BC) is still around and sold me a couple wheels last year.

https://bkceng.com/?page_id=111

 

[Varminterror]

Ken passed away a few years ago

I hadn’t heard that - but in fairness I haven’t been following that crew for a long time either. Shame to hear, all the same.

But also interesting to see Starline still referencing his work as recommendation for how to anneal.

 

[markr6754]

That’s consistent with the video in post #6 of your last thread on the subject.

That video was interesting, but until you directed me back to it I didn't realize they were depicting exactly what I was looking accomplish. They show long cases going into the flame, necked cases coming out of the flame, then obviously annealed and unformed long cases dropping into the bins, before showing polished long cases dropping into other bins. Your experienced eye understood the first go...while my inexperienced eye saw a neato multi-million dollar plant in operation.

Thanks for the redirect. I've been overthinking this.

Referring back to your post #6, you're probably right that the better source is likely to be factory ammo...which I just found somewhat locally for $1.32/rd. That's just pennies more than I can load my own with new brass. Look at that...I'm getting smarter every day.