ColinBr
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I take it you can just order up direct by contacting them?
Annealing machine
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ColinBr
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I've ordered 1 up.
Worked out at around £210 delivered
trickie
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The caselife is also a good machine, despite having plastic wheels and a slightly larger price tag. I’ve seen both in use and it’s a difficult decision to make.
If cash or bling is the issue, Ugly is the way to go.
If made in England then it’s the caselife.
Both are an improvement on my home made, but not much.
If cash or bling is the issue, Ugly is the way to go.
If made in England then it’s the caselife.
Both are an improvement on my home made, but not much.
He’s on UKVarminting - that’s how I got in touch with him. Very high quality product- excellent machine for not a lot of money. Struggled initially to find the right flame/nozzle - very little info [that I could find] out there. Bit of trial and error with timings. Tempilaq is a massive faff - I ended up old school going by dark cherry glow and a metallic/light grey shoulder and neck finish. Some will roll their eyes but I’m happy with the end result. Couldn’t justify spending 5x more on an AMP - Lubo’s annealer was €280, delivered, last year
ColinBr
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Yes I was in contact with him on that forum also.
I've ended up going with the ugly annealer, as it comes with all the calibre inserts FOC.
ColinBr
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What torch/nozzle did you end up with, as I'll no doubt need to work this out also
TS4000T Bernzomatic. Takes a bit of fiddling to get the swirl flame in the right spot and distance but works well for me on the 223
Oops - that was pre-mod. This is post mod:
As you can see from the pictures and the video, the CaseLife works equally as well with their torch and my plumbing torch. Very easy to set up and repeat once you have got the speed/distance sorted.
Or there is the budget modification. In this case using aluminium heat resistant tape from Screwfix.
Not as pretty, but it's cured the problem and the first application has lasted for just over 100 cases so far (there's another 20 metres left on the roll).
ColinBr
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Really with this little unit and would highly recommend it.
Easy to setup and use. Quickly de-primed some old 223 cases to use as initial setup and ran them thru.
Was only planning on doing 10 or so cases, but the wee fella came in and decided he wanted to have a go at de-primimg. Safety specs on and all 50 were ready to have a go.
Took me around 3 cases to get the timing right, and then at around 4-4.5 seconds I found perfect for 223 brass. So all in around 5 mins and all 50 cases were done.
I tried it with some 308 cases and they took around 6.5 seconds.
Easy to setup and use. Quickly de-primed some old 223 cases to use as initial setup and ran them thru.
Was only planning on doing 10 or so cases, but the wee fella came in and decided he wanted to have a go at de-primimg. Safety specs on and all 50 were ready to have a go.
Took me around 3 cases to get the timing right, and then at around 4-4.5 seconds I found perfect for 223 brass. So all in around 5 mins and all 50 cases were done.
I tried it with some 308 cases and they took around 6.5 seconds.
Ride walker
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A couple of years ago I imported a Bench Source Vertex Annealer direct from the manufacturer. It was substantially cheaper than buying in the UK. The price here’s seems to have gone through the roof, so probably worth checking out.
adamsinfield
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I have one and it works pretty well, but to be honest I largely get my mate to use his AMP as it’s much easier!
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