Induction Annealing

[gearheadpyro]

Something that I have been working on recently... Induction annealing case necks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbjhTXvwVPU

[Reloading]

very cool video, i 5 starred it for you!

[gearheadpyro]

Thanks

[gearheadpyro]

I've put together another video showing my induction annealing setup, now with a timer. The timer was easy to build, and cost only about $15. I took the switch off of the inductor and plugged the wires into the timer. Now I hit the button to activate the timer, it turns the coil on, after a set amount of time it goes off. Simple as that.
The schematic for the timer is in the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_ohUknmaq4

[gearheadpyro]

I've put together a slideshow/video with tempilaq on the cases. It shows how hot the cases get, and how localized the heat is. With the timer on the induction heater all of the cases get to the same heat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uasv-Pyxu4g

Other than that...

The automatic induction annealer is coming along well. I've ordered many parts for it and should begin construction within a week. I decided to go to a flashed chip for controlling it, that should help keep the cost down as I won't need a whole bunch of expensive electronics for it now, just the one chip. As always, I keep the updates coming on my blog, http://www.rifles-shooting-reloading.com/Reloading-blog.html.