Just finished working with settings for 218 Bee brass (mix of Winchester and Reminton) an a new 2.0 machine. The brass is being annealed to hydroform (Hornady hydroforming die) into 218 Mashburn Bee (reformed case neck from 15 deg to 30 deg) prior to fire forming in rifle.
The brass wanted to slightly climb away from the resting stopping bar. Pulled away may 1/16 of an inch from the stop bar. I will play with the stopping bar on the next run to see how it works.
Will not be able to hydroform and case form for a few months. I hope the hydroforming and annealing process with help save some of the brass so it does not split. I have seen pictures of people losing some 218 Bee brass to double splits and I want to avoid that as much as possible.
The settings for the annealer was 39-41 depending upon where the flame was hitting. This is fairly small and thin brass so it has to go faster through the process. Once I got the feed ramp set the brass dropped in without issues. It was a little finicky due to the small case length.
I will be able to hopefully post some pictures next week.
I followed what was done in the videos. I did use the glow method for determining when the speed when the brass was soaking in the flame.
These were once fired brass by someone else and have been sitting around hence the darker brass color. It is hard to keep consistent when the brass is so small and the flame tends to engulf the brass. How do they look? Too much? The third from the right has another ring at the top near the case mouth. Is that a problem?
Awesome! Thanks for the information!!