How do I anneal necked rifle brass?

ok . did some testing ,



first thing is I am out of Tempilaq 750deg so I ran my test with 700deg Tempilaq, I was thinking large mag cases would get way too hot , turns out those are the only ones that worked , 300 win mag and 300 Wetherby mag, had the tempilaq right at the melting point as they got to hot to hold on to ,
but 7mmWSM, 35Rem, 30/30 , 270win, and 223rem all were to hot to hold long before the neck reached the need 700to 800deg, and the 25WSSM got so hot so fast I dropped it in the candle :banghead:

all in all my little test showed me the candle trick will not over do it , and may help keep some necks from splitting, but it is a waste of a lot of time for a maybe ,

time to go clean up my mess,

Finally, maybe a use for Christmas candles. Not hot enough to burn the zinc out of the brass, might be a good thing?

243winxb said:

Finally, maybe a use for Christmas candles. Not hot enough to burn the zinc out of the brass, might be a good thing?

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would believe my wife gave me them just for this test , oh and it is a real pain to get wax out of a case after you drop one in the candle

Here is another thread on one.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=775050

Lots of good advice here. When in doubt watch some YouTube vids.