I have been playing with a concept for a while, but have not spent any time actually making a prototype.
Although I don't have any sketches or anything, so do your best to picture it... Essentially it would be a properly functioning, easy to use unit. The specifics are not as important as the end goal of a manually fed, affordable annealing machine.
It would be a single flame, rotating case (not a big rotating plate) , manual feed/extract annealer.
It would work in such a way where you put a case into the caliber specific holder (all cals up to Lapua would be included in the price) and advance the case holding arm into the flame, where it will rotate for x.xx amount of seconds. At that time a second manual push will drop the case into whatever you're storing it in, and you would retract the arm to a flame-free area, load the next case, and repeat.
I have always wanted an annealer but $400-$500 is too steep of a price considering the minimal use I would be needing. Yes, there is the whole group of people who provide annealing services, but let's ignore that temporarily. I am thinking that if I could design and manufacture an annealer that is in the range of $150, it would be a much more justifiable purchase for the average shooter, and would provide the convenience of immediate annealing, rather than having to ship your brass and wait a few days.
So, based on this best attempt at a description, is a $150 manually fed annealer something you would be interested in?
If I can get enough interest, I will proceed with a prototype (as soon as I have some time) and continue from there. I just want to get some feedback first.
The benefit here is that I would be the manufacturer, so you'd get manufacturer direct pricing. I suspect many of the annealing machines are designed by one person who has someone else make them, then re-sells at x markup, which just increases end user cost.
Although I don't have any sketches or anything, so do your best to picture it... Essentially it would be a properly functioning, easy to use unit. The specifics are not as important as the end goal of a manually fed, affordable annealing machine.
It would be a single flame, rotating case (not a big rotating plate) , manual feed/extract annealer.
It would work in such a way where you put a case into the caliber specific holder (all cals up to Lapua would be included in the price) and advance the case holding arm into the flame, where it will rotate for x.xx amount of seconds. At that time a second manual push will drop the case into whatever you're storing it in, and you would retract the arm to a flame-free area, load the next case, and repeat.
I have always wanted an annealer but $400-$500 is too steep of a price considering the minimal use I would be needing. Yes, there is the whole group of people who provide annealing services, but let's ignore that temporarily. I am thinking that if I could design and manufacture an annealer that is in the range of $150, it would be a much more justifiable purchase for the average shooter, and would provide the convenience of immediate annealing, rather than having to ship your brass and wait a few days.
So, based on this best attempt at a description, is a $150 manually fed annealer something you would be interested in?
If I can get enough interest, I will proceed with a prototype (as soon as I have some time) and continue from there. I just want to get some feedback first.
The benefit here is that I would be the manufacturer, so you'd get manufacturer direct pricing. I suspect many of the annealing machines are designed by one person who has someone else make them, then re-sells at x markup, which just increases end user cost.
