On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 22:22:22 +1000, "Nick" wrote:

Nick,

so I annealed it by baking it in the oven at the highest setting and turned
off the oven and let it cool slowly as the oven cooled down.

Maybe this was my first mistake but I have noticed in other threads that
some recommend quenching the metal in water etc after heating. I would of
thought this would have hardened it but maybe I am mistaken.

I'm not a metallurgist, so I can't say definitively if different
metals react in different ways, however, I can tell you that when
metals like silver and brass get work-hardened, you anneal them by
heating them cherry red and quenching them in water. This I have
learned from reloading rifle and pistol cartridges (the case mouth can
get work hardened from repeated loading and crimping) and from doing
some amateur silversmithing. Both processes (handloading and
hammering silver) definitely benefitted from this annealing procedure.


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