My poor man's anealing machine (short video in action)

[Motard]

http://tinypic.com/r/25qxag5/9

I have done it with the help of a friend wich is an expert machinist, but the aim was to use scrapyard items. It's not smarth but it whorks
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1) books library steel holder (backyard sale)
1) RPM 12 volts controller (7 euros on ebay)
1) 6 mm threaded bar for brass stopper (1 euro or less)
1) discarded cellphone, pc, printer charger 12 volts
1) car windows wiper (possibly french car) electric engine from a dismantled autopart sale (15 euro)


Starting from last: most of the electric car's wipers motors are cammed, so to change wipers direction every half a tourn. But french cars are not (at least not all).Infact some rely on e reversing sistem placed on the whipers bracket and not on the gear: if you find one job easier.
If not You must remove the cam in the electric engine, grind it flat, and solder the main driving gear. Job dane.
By adding an " L " shaped section bar, slight diagonal let say 30 deg, on the right free space of the holding frame (library) you can seat multiple brass on line on that slide. So each time the can's slot kisses the slide it will drop a brass in the can, gravity will position it on the threaded stopper. To ensure the right anealing time You can revert the tourning direction (just swapp positive and negative poles) so the brass will stay in the can for nearly a full tourn, or/and lower motor rmp, or/and power the torch flame. It will whork but I find easier dropping the brass one after the other by holding them with a screwdriver inserted in the mouth.
Infact I removed the slide bar becasue often happens that two brasses drops togheder. In this case in order to have them both uniformly anealed You should place the torch not aside but under the can (flame facing up), or place two torches (left and right): but I am not fan on having gasflames fronting each other.
Fitting a sort of brake at the end of the slider bar (see pic), determining right angles of the slider for each caliber, or may be reducing the opening on the can's slot could avoid double dropping. But it takes some other studies. The brass come out with 1/3 of the body slightly silvered and softned. My tempilstick marlìker ,and way more may seat of the pants, both says anealing is right.

[daboone]

Very nice! This simplicity could easily be adapted parts more available here in my part of the world. Thanks for this post and video.

[Artful]

Nice indeed - one of jobs we all find tedious.

[runfiverun]

don't you burn your hand sticking it in front of the flame like that?

[VHoward]

That's what I was thinking except the torch wasn't on.

[OS OK]

Brilliant!

[Motard]

No I don't have fire prof finghers. as written I hold bulletts by inserting a screwdriver in the mouse and placing them directli on the bottom of pan, its as rapid as using finghers and you can use the screwdriver to correct any thing is going wrong, ie a case prematurely falling down. as said is a cheap dolution but is way more rapid and less tedius than the handrill sistem. thouhgt I never tried the watherpan multi anealing method so i cant speack about that.

[kbstenberg]

Motad the flat metal sheet that everything is mounted to. did you have to angle it more than 90deg so the brass didn't walk forward? The can that you used as the case holder/spinner did you use a #10 steel can. I used an old metal coffee can.

[Motard]

Kstemberg, i usually cant it a litle by slidind under a dowell. my can was from tomato sauce, not shure abiuth thikness, can write here later when at home. but i have cicled som hundred brass in it and still did'nt warped.

[OS OK]

I hope the Mouse doesn't complain too much when you insert the screwdriver!...

Looking from the front like that, I'd bend the far end of the wire about 3 degrees to the left so it's pushing that brass at a slight angle...the brass then would be trying to walk back into the can.

[Motard]

Yes, this is the right way yo conttoll dropping.canting the wire.. sorrry fir the mouse. my english often betried me

[VHoward]

Motard, believe it or not, you are doing better with English than a lot of people here in the USA. And you do well enough for us to understand what you are talking about. Some researchers have even found out that if you get the first letter and last letter of each word correct, some will read it correctly and not even realize the word was spelled incorrectly. Please don't take offense if some tease you a little. They don't mean anything by it. The mouse instead of mouth was funny though.

[Motard]

No offense at all. When I realized what I wrote I was laughing myself. And complaining about poor mouse *** bottom

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[seagiant]

Hi,
Fantastic,and all you really need!

Thanks for sharing!!!

[mozeppa]

where will i find all the highly proprietary parts to build this?

nuts, bolts, cans, steel rods!
and tools!

wrenches, screwdrivers and tin snips!....i'm not made of money!

[dverna]

Motard

NEVER be concerned about your English. A picture is worth 1000 words.

Your ingenuity is excellent. Thanks for posting!

Don Verna

[GrayTech]

Great work!

[Motard]

Kastemberg, as for Your's question on thickness, can appear to be 0,5 mm ie 0.01 inch. I cannot be more precise cause the part where I can apply the micrometer has some ribbing, and I trashed the rest. But is a very common tomeato sauce can. Once/if it will ever get warped by multiple heating I am ready to replace it with an inox pan stollen from my lady's kitchen, but don'tell here, please.

[runfiverun]

the can size isn't important.
it's how long the case is in the flame.
you just adjust the motors speed to keep the case in there for 4-6 seconds.

[VHoward]

Kastemberg, as for Your's question on thickness, can appear to be 0,5 mm ie 0.01 inch. I cannot be more precise cause the part where I can apply the micrometer has some ribbing, and I trashed the rest. But is a very common tomeato sauce can. Once/if it will ever get warped by multiple heating I am ready to replace it with an inox pan stollen from my lady's kitchen, but don'tell here, please.

So, what you do is go buy her a new pan so when she starts looking for the missing pan, you have the new one ready to give to her. That way your the hero.