Bills Shed wrote:Please not lets turn this into another annealing thread. Annealing a neck is not rocket science. If he does a couple of cases and the marks go away he will know the cause. Then you can school him on your machine, and the good bad and ugly of annealing.
Bill
Thanks for your input Bill, but I was NOT attempting to "turn this into another(?) annealing thread.
OP said that he had bought NEW brass which would have been annealed in the manufacturing process. Why would he need to anneal it again?
Your assertion that annealing "is not rocket science" should be tempered by the statement "If you know how to do it properly", which is why I attached the link! There most certainly is "the good, bad, and ugly of annealing", a lot of which, you will probably agree, is plain ugly and ineffective.
I have no need or desire to school OP or anybody else; if people read the article, they will then be conversant with the process and not stumble into the many pitfalls, some of which lead to significant danger.