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Annealing before or after sizing?
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<blockquote data-quote="A/C Guy" data-source="post: 1952514" data-attributes="member: 13490"><p>Dumping the brass into water will harden the brass that you just annealed.</p><p></p><p>Proper annealing requires the metal to cool gradually, slowly. We solder and braze brass and copper and all the manufacturers of the parts we solder and braze specifically say that dousing the metal with water will harden the metals.</p><p></p><p>If you look up/ Google annealing techniques, you will see that every where but on shooting forums, the experts say that annealing requires heating the metal then allowing the metal to cool slowly. It is during the slow cooling process that the grain structure aligns itself and you end up with consistent annealed metal. Dousing it or allowing it to cool too fast hardens the outside and makes the metal more likely to crack. This is scientific fact.</p><p>Someone somewhere on a shooting forum started this douse them in water technique which is scientifically proven to be wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="A/C Guy, post: 1952514, member: 13490"] Dumping the brass into water will harden the brass that you just annealed. Proper annealing requires the metal to cool gradually, slowly. We solder and braze brass and copper and all the manufacturers of the parts we solder and braze specifically say that dousing the metal with water will harden the metals. If you look up/ Google annealing techniques, you will see that every where but on shooting forums, the experts say that annealing requires heating the metal then allowing the metal to cool slowly. It is during the slow cooling process that the grain structure aligns itself and you end up with consistent annealed metal. Dousing it or allowing it to cool too fast hardens the outside and makes the metal more likely to crack. This is scientific fact. Someone somewhere on a shooting forum started this douse them in water technique which is scientifically proven to be wrong. [/QUOTE]
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