Neck sizing before or after annealing?

I did read that in the article but it was said to be unreliable. Even the method I am using was said to be unreliable but not dangerous. Then I read in that same article that you can purchase a hand held tool to do it that way so you can get the brass hotter. This doesn't make sense because as you where saying, there is no way of knowing how hot it will get AND THAT IS DANGEROUSE. Would this not be true?
yomomma said:
Simplest cheapest repeatable way is to buy a cheap second hand casting pot and a thermometer. Fill it full of lead and heat to 750. Use your watch and dip case up to the shoulder into the lead, time using watch. If you do it with spent primers still in the case you will not get any lead on the inside of the neck. Time in will depend on case type
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As a peace offering.....

If you get the drill mounted holder, and a bottle of tempilaq, and a torch, and a timer, you should be able to recreate what my 400$ annealer does.

-J.
 
Bigbore 35 said:
I did read that in the article but it was said to be unreliable. Even the method I am using was said to be unreliable but not dangerous. Then I read in that same article that you can purchase a hand held tool to do it that way so you can get the brass hotter. This doesn't make sense because as you where saying, there is no way of knowing how hot it will get AND THAT IS DANGEROUSE. Would this not be true?
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Without a thermometer it would be, you would still need to use tempilaq to verify what you are doing.

I reread what the author wrote....if what he said was true no one would ever cast their own bullets ;)
 
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