[TheForge] Re: Bricks- Light vs heavy

[Demon Buddha]

Vermiculite or wood ash.

Bill Roberts wrote:
> fwiw,
> I've always annealed ferrous...both low and high carbon, in a 5  gallon 
> bucket of warm sand or lime. Get the material hot and plunge  it into or 
> bury it in the sand or lime and leave it over night.  Annealed in the 
> morning.
> 2 cents,
> bill
> On Apr 20, 2006, at 1:38 AM, Jerry Frost wrote:
> 
>> Before you take what I do as gospel though, I'd like one of the  guys 
>> here who do a lot of heat treating to jump in.
> 
> 
> Bill Roberts
> www.CustomDesignMetalArts.com
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