well after finally receiving a warranty replacement I would say I am tickled pink. just over 2 seconds per case for a perfect annealing, just got my heat exchanger in the mail today so going to work on hooking up a cooling coil to keep everything on the machine nice and cool
Case Annealing - check out this bad boy!
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well after finally receiving a warranty replacement I would say I am tickled pink. just over 2 seconds per case for a perfect annealing, just got my heat exchanger in the mail today so going to work on hooking up a cooling coil to keep everything on the machine nice and cool
Raising an old thread... My shooting/reloading partner and I just bought the Annie induction unit. We went with the water cooled coil and a foot control. Gave it a run this afternoon and was very impressed with how well it worked. We annealed just over 500 .308 lapua and had no troubles with the unit. There was no need for a pump system as we rigged up a gravity feed siphon from 1 bucket to another. We couldn't find Templaq but did find Markal Thermomelt heat sticks at Acklands and that was the only disappointment. They are very dry and was almost like chalk. We did manage to get the chalk to stick and had a good level of confidence our temps were ok. Used 750 F for the neck/shoulder and 450F on the case base. We found that 4 seconds was the right amount of time for the brass we had. You could just start to see a slight glow on the brass and the 450 F at the base never melted.
We looked at the AMP unit and came to the conclusion that $1395.00 was way too much to spend on annealing. The decision to go with the Annie for $500.00 appears to be solid at this time. It is still a lot of money to spend but we are loading a significant amount of rounds and over time if the Annie holds up we will be ahead of the game not needing to buy gas canisters not to mention the consistent results that induction brings to the table.
If you are contemplating getting into induction annealing my first impression is that the Annie is a solid route to go. I will look at rigging up something to automate the process in the future but as a starting point this was a great way to get the job done.
We looked at the AMP unit and came to the conclusion that $1395.00 was way too much to spend on annealing. The decision to go with the Annie for $500.00 appears to be solid at this time. It is still a lot of money to spend but we are loading a significant amount of rounds and over time if the Annie holds up we will be ahead of the game not needing to buy gas canisters not to mention the consistent results that induction brings to the table.
If you are contemplating getting into induction annealing my first impression is that the Annie is a solid route to go. I will look at rigging up something to automate the process in the future but as a starting point this was a great way to get the job done.
Glad you got your Annie working. A few of us have been having minor issues with ours but I think it's just because Fluxeon is fairly new to the game.
Both YoDave and myself have had our units replaced with newer models.
Right now, my issue is that the gap in my ferrite coil is too large for the 300 wsm brass I'm using. Trying to work with Garett at Fluxeon to get a coil with a small gap in it.
Mike.
Both YoDave and myself have had our units replaced with newer models.
Right now, my issue is that the gap in my ferrite coil is too large for the 300 wsm brass I'm using. Trying to work with Garett at Fluxeon to get a coil with a small gap in it.
Mike.
Nothing actually. Found out via YoDave that Fluxeon used the incorrect wire inside the Annie unit and it didn't stand up to temperature after doing multiple cases.
I contacted Garett at Fluxeon about it, and he said he had no problem replacing my unit with an updated one.
Garett has been good to deal with for the most part. He's tried to help me out with any question I have but it seems to me that he's either bitten off more than he can chew
at this point, or his sales have taken off and he's unable to keep things under control.
Still running like a garage based business and should probably have stepped it up to a small office-based business instead.
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Nice!!
I don't have enough experience with the unit to give any insight on gap. I do wonder why 300wsm would be a problem when it worked so good for .308
With the water cooled coil I just dropped the case in the middle and hit the button. It would center the case and go. I set the unit up on a flat bench with 2 2x4's under it. I used a small piece of dense foam from a Berger bullet box to drop the case onto and set the height with a slight bend on the coil. When it was done I pulled the foam out from underneath the case and it fell out the bottom of the coil. Didn't time the whole process but it was around 2 hrs. For 500 and some cases. The Annie didn't even get warm to touch. After each case you could touch the coil and it was warm but not hot.
Hope you get it worked out.
With the water cooled coil I just dropped the case in the middle and hit the button. It would center the case and go. I set the unit up on a flat bench with 2 2x4's under it. I used a small piece of dense foam from a Berger bullet box to drop the case onto and set the height with a slight bend on the coil. When it was done I pulled the foam out from underneath the case and it fell out the bottom of the coil. Didn't time the whole process but it was around 2 hrs. For 500 and some cases. The Annie didn't even get warm to touch. After each case you could touch the coil and it was warm but not hot.
Hope you get it worked out.
