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finished the auto annealer today


jmorris

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If you quench brass in water is that like quenching steel in water (hardens it?). When knifemakers anneal blades they try to let it cool as slowly as possible. Not sure how brass works. Regardless, your machine is awesome!

~Mitch

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If you quench brass in water is that like quenching steel in water (hardens it?).

The only way I know to harden brass is to work it. Water quenching doesn’t have much of an effect on brass according to this article http://www.6mmbr.com/annealing.html. I’m not sure why he set his up that way other than old wives tails take a long time to die (you know some people still don’t set batteries on concrete and they haven’t been cased with wood for many decades). I left water out of my process because you have to let them dry before the next step.

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