Cooked my brass.

[vossman]

In stead of using a warm oven to dry my brass, I accidentally baked it for 30 mins at 350. It turned a darker color, almost copper. Is it still safe to reload?

[vossman]

[XC700116]

It's fine, It takes just below 500 degrees to even start the annealing process in brass. It takes about an hour at 600 to effectively anneal brass. (obviously you don't want to do the with rifle brass because it will anneal the whole case) That's why we shoot for right around 750 at the neck only to target the annealing where you want it and not where you don't.

But basically you just warmed it up and accelerated the color change that would happen just sitting in open air over a longer period of time.

[Tim K]

It's fine, It takes just below 500 degrees to even start the annealing process in brass. It takes about an hour at 600 to effectively anneal brass. (obviously you don't want to do the with rifle brass because it will anneal the whole case) That's why we shoot for right around 750 at the neck only to target the annealing where you want it and not where you don't.

But basically you just warmed it up and accelerated the color change that would happen just sitting in open air over a longer period of time.

Exactly right.

[vossman]

Thx gents.

[KS63]

That’s some good info from XC.