> --- Forwarded mail from Bob Lang <LANG@ISIS.MIT.EDU>
> Actually, this is not annealing. Annealing is heating it red hot and
> slowly cooling it overnight in heavy ashes. What you did was to attempt
> to temper the copper.
> --- End of forwarded mail from Bob Lang <LANG@ISIS.MIT.EDU>
Annealing does NOT require "overnight cooling in heavy ashes", in fact
a quench bath is sometimes used, depending on the base material and the
desired properties, however dunking in cold water is not going to improve
the fatigue resistance of copper - if anything it will make things worse.
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John R. Lupien
lupienj@wal.hp.com
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