Reloading Question - or Overcooked brass

[leftyo]

you could cook it at 300degrees for a month and not ruin it.

[fguffey]

How would a reloader determine if the brass was ruined?

you could cook it at 300degrees for a month and not ruin it.

Does that mean a reloader has no methodd and or techniques for determing if a piece of brass is too work hardened and or too soft after annealing to be used?

F. Guffey

[leftyo]

without having a mettallurgy lab in your spare room, no you have no real way of knowing.

[fguffey]

without having a mettallurgy lab in your spare room, no you have no real way of knowing.

Any reloader with minimum shop skill and reloading equipment can determine if brass is to soft. Reloaders without shop skills can not be convinced it is possible.

And then there is the ability to determine if the case requires annealing, I do not set limits on a reloaders ability.

F. Guffey

[leftyo]

well then, since your all knowing as always, why dont you just tell everyone how. i made brass for a living once upon a time, and i cant do it at home.