[TheForge] Annealing Aluminum

[The Millers]

If I recall watching Jesse James annealing aluminum to pound out one of 
his cycle gas tanks.
All he did was set the torch to a sooty flame, uniformly cover the 
surface with soot, and then I think he burned off the soot,
and it was dead soft.


On Wednesday, July 28, 2004, at 10:07 PM, Craig Schaefer wrote:

> I need to anneal some small pieces of aluminum plate.   1/8 to 3/16 
> thickness.  I do not know the alloy.  I have oxy/acetylene at my 
> disposal.
> I know that heating to 650F and air cooling is a good rule of thumb, 
> but how do I approximate 650F with the torch?
>
> CraigS
> Gresham, OR
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