Brilliant new home-made annealing machine design

[Demonic69]

Temperature, sense and control, speed, case length/type, feeding mechanism etc. It would only be overkill though :-D

[GarethM]

How many customers is that for a Shed-made version? hint hint

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Me too.

If you made the back panel adjustable for depth, it would work for different lengths of case, leaving the neck in the same position

Gareth

[Demonic69]

Yes we have access to large lathes. But turning a drum that size would be a awful waste of stainless steel and expensive. A better idea would be to get a stainless drum/bowl of food quality and machine the bottom off then modify it to suit. drill a hole in the base mount it to a small motor with variable speed control and mount the whole thing in a stainless steel tray. tesnews

That was what I was going for, turning a drum would be insane :-)

[Demonic69]

now automate the case feeding with a magazine and you would have something really special. Modifying the design to work with rimmed cases is easy enough.

A magazine? A gun magazine or some form of hopper?

[Alpha1]

Why do you need to automate it. Its a simple design that works the average shooter could get away with this in his garage. We are not talking production scale.
I think its a cracking idea. I am going to have a go at building one my self I have all ready got the motor and control unit. I have a drum I just need to find the time to design and build some thing.
I will have a go and build one for myself and see if I can get it to work. But after that its not my design its not my work if any one else wants one they should pay the guy who came up with the idea to build them one.

[Demonic69]

Why do you need to automate it. Its a simple design that works the average shooter could get away with this in his garage. We are not talking production scale.

Why not? :-)
I'm just a geek...

[Dustyman]

To adjust for depth , rather than making it too complex , might it be easier to select a cap end or pan that suits the longest case and then add a disc (s ), or ring , inside the drum to push the case forward so the end of the case is always at the same point ish might only need a few discs/ rings , could be in any material ?

For rimmed cases could Roll a collar that slips inside the cap so far to leave space for the rim maybe ?

[Yorric]

It wouldn't be too difficult to add a Giraud type indexing wheel hopper feeder, dropping cases onto the feed chute. simply driven by the same motor.

Ian

[Alpha1]

But why would you want to its a simple design it works and its cheap as chips to build if you have access to variable speed motors drums of the right size and apprentices with nothing else to do. Why complicate things.

[Demonic69]

Haven't you got us a prototype yet Alpha? ;-)