Annealing for cash. Options and opinions please.

[scout_289]

Absolutely, without doubt, this liability thing has gone a way too far, just one of the many things that makes life more unpleasant now, than it was not many years ago.
To answer your question, "My client paid you money to prepare a brass cartridge case for him to load and make a cartridge with. You used heat to alter the very structure of the brass the case was made from. My client loaded the cartridge, fired it in his rifle, the rifle blew up and caused injury to my client----"
Bruce

Yup, way too far 4831.

It's interesting that in the USA society allows you to take much more risk without interference then if you do screw up the lawyers and the legal system make you pay and pay.

Here in the nanny state the government tries its best to keep you from hurting yourself or others but if you screw up the outcome on the legal end is much the same, at least in principle.

Two totally different philosophies.

 

[OldDude]

Sorry, it is a good idea but I don't agree that there's "no liability". The machines accuracy, precision and repeatability can be called into question as well as the owner giving a person of unknown capability permission to use the machine on his premises. I'm not a lawyer and could be totally wrong but I do see an exposure for Rstjean.

Some (many???) years ago, when I was a member of the Canadian Ski Patrol System we were cautioned against lending a screwdriver out to a skier so they could adjust their own bindings. The reason I remember from back then was that if you lent them a tool to mess with their equipment, you were making a judgement call that they were knowledgeable and qualified to make such adjustments. if they got hurt as a result of borrowing your screwdriver, you could be held liable for their injuries.
I don't know if that was official CSPS policy, or just local patrol-level position.

Like scout_289, I'm not a lawyer. Also, I do not play one on tv.

 

[Rstjean]

I was thinking that if I can only get $25 per 100 it wouldn't really be worth me not spending time with my family or doing something more fun then annealing anyway. With the extra worry about liability it doesn't seem worth it to me. Thanks for everyone's opinions and advice.

Thanks Ryan

 

[scout_289]

Good on you for asking for help, regardless of what final decision you came to. In this case time with family is a great booby prize!