[TheForge] annealing thin stainless?

[Barking Crow]

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From: "barkingcrow" <barkingcrow@barkingcrow.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 3:02 PM
Subject: annealing thin stainless?


> Yesterday at the junkyard in the stainless bin I found a slightly dented 2
> qt unused pot with the double boiler for it smashed up on the bottom
partway
> and mangled, even creased a couple of places.  naturally i brought it
hojme
> and spent several hours hammering on the double boiler to return it to its
> somewhat original shape.  It went rather well and though I kept thinking I
> should stop and anneal it I was impatient and amazingly it didn't crack or
> break.
>
> My question is should I have stopped and annealed it and if so how?  I was
> thinking of just getting it red hot and then putting it in vermiculite,
but
> it was so thin that I'd have probably burned it or not gotten it hot
enough
> to anneal all over.
>
> I'm also guessing that all of the holes in the double boiler helped it not
> break, but what do you think, would a solid pot have reshaped as well
> without workhardening to the point of breaking?
>
> Thanks,   Jeff Valentine
>
>