Who Does Salt Annealing?

I hear you on the too easy part. Those who revell in slow and complicated or complicated and expensive might feel vaguely unfulfilled by just looking at a temperature gauge and being done in a few minutes. What are you going to do with the rest of your day? ;)
 
I am salt bath annealing and it works awesome. Ballisticrecreations.ca out of Edmonton for the kit, but you will need the melting pot from LEE at Cabella's. Happy annealing
 
Which Lee pot to buy....cabelas lists 2. A Lee precision melter for 75.00 and the Lee production pot for 115.00?
 
sharp shooter said:
Well after starting this thread over a month ago, I've finally gotten around to using my kit. it was too easy and too quick but oh well. I highly recommend going his route.
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Agree. I received my kit and pot last week. I've done over 200 cases so far and all works as advertised. Great low cost way to anneal brass cases.
 
sharp shooter said:
So what is the right temperature? I did 500 degrees C for 7 seconds. They looked good but is it the correct temp and duration?
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watching his youtube video, he states 5-550* for 5 seconds (with 4=7 seconds having the same results), looks to be doing 308 cases, so i would imagine anything from 223 up to magnums would fall in this range, bit longer for the magnum sized cases
 
sharp shooter said:
So what is the right temperature? I did 500 degrees C for 7 seconds. They looked good but is it the correct temp and duration?
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I finally tried my setup last night. I did 500 degrees for a count of 5. I used Tempilaq 650f and it changed like it should with that duration. I was just using .223 so larger cases may take a ~second longer.

Overall this was a very easy way to anneal. Thanks so much for bringing up this topic as it made me take the plunge in to salt bath.
 
Yes , Sharp shooter, TKS for this thread. Got me into annealing which I wanted to do this before but found other methods too costly or complex.
 
I got my melter and am just waiting on the salt kit. Just out of curiosity what do you set the temp dial on the melter to for 500 - 550 degrees?
 
686 Shooter said:
I got my melter and am just waiting on the salt kit. Just out of curiosity what do you set the temp dial on the melter to for 500 - 550 degrees?
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I read somewhere that wide-open was hard on the unit and lessened life. To attain 500-530C the 7 level is all you need and was recommended. When I used mine I found that 7 was great and had to often turn it down to keep from going to high. When the temp drops just turn back to 7 and wait till the temp gets right again. Works for me.
 
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