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The question is....
can you anneal "nickle plated brass" and NOT have the plating come off?? Asking for a friend.
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Interesting - I'd never thought of that. I do have some nickel plated Hornady brass, but it hasn't been fired enough to need annealing yet. Interesting - stinks and blackens. Who'd have thought that would happen?
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With all due respect, the stinking and blackening may indicate that that brass was overcooked a little. I put together a 6X45 during the past year as a lightweight deer rifle. Started out with new IMI brass with no problems but later found a box of Remington nickel plated brass which I thought would make some good hunting ammo. When I necked it up I started getting some cracked necks, so re-annealed it with my Bench Source annealer and all is well now. My cases came out without any significant color change. When I set the annealer up I used regular brass cases to get time/temp right, then ran the nickel plated brass.
My biggest concern with nickel plated brass is possible damage to my resizing dies if I end up reloading any of this brass, or I may just let it fly. I have the IMI brass for any load development work that I might want to do when bullets are available again. |
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I have annealed some nickel plated 256 win mag cases I made, some did work some did not at the time, later the plating did come loose in subsequent firings and sizings |
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Bill, how were you annealing that left soot on the necks?
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How did you do it? To what temp? I tried with a torch and the coating melted off the only time I tried. I have a bunch of loaded many times .38 cases that have worn thru yet are still good. Never annealed rifle cases til the .358 RUM ordeal. Please share, even us old guys would like to know.
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