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    Quote Originally Posted by Puffin View Post
    @Feather or Shoot I recently came across the following:
    http://web.nchu.edu.tw/~jillc/me/Ch1...0Treatment.pdf
    Pages 33-37
    That's some confusing stuff @Puffin!

    I get that softening happens during the re crystallization temperature boundaries of 200& 500°C. I don't get how they don't show time on that graph. They then refer to the annealing of brass at 580°C being totally re crystallized after 8 seconds.
    Interesting that the more worked brass is the less temperature it takes to anneal.

    In the steel section they talk of age hardening at low temperatures for long times, I wonder if brass age softens when treated the same.

    Any idea what hardness we are aiming for when annealing cartridge brass?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Feather or Shoot View Post
    That's some confusing stuff @Puffin!

    I get that softening happens during the re crystallization temperature boundaries of 200& 500°C. I don't get how they don't show time on that graph. They then refer to the annealing of brass at 580°C being totally re crystallized after 8 seconds.
    Interesting that the more worked brass is the less temperature it takes to anneal.

    In the steel section they talk of age hardening at low temperatures for long times, I wonder if brass age softens when treated the same.

    Any idea what hardness we are aiming for when annealing cartridge brass?

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    Agree. I'm assuming that time is fixed, but no figure has been given, and then the crossing of the data plots in figure 10-33 is unintuitive. Also online searches reveal a differing in opinion over whether low temperature "age" annealing is possible. If I was sufficiently motivated I'd spend a day up at the VUW library trying to get to the bottom of it as it is in the area of my educational background, but my DIY inductive annealer has recently appeared to result in a halving of vertical dispersion out to 1000 metres so I'm content at the moment to engage in casual reading on the topic, follow the debate in an ill-informed manner, while enjoying the practical benefits !
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    Quote Originally Posted by Puffin View Post
    Agree. I'm assuming that time is fixed, but no figure has been given, and then the crossing of the data plots in figure 10-33 is unintuitive. Also online searches reveal a differing in opinion over whether low temperature "age" annealing is possible. If I was sufficiently motivated I'd spend a day up at the VUW library trying to get to the bottom of it as it is in the area of my educational background, but my DIY inductive annealer has recently appeared to result in a halving of vertical dispersion out to 1000 metres so I'm content at the moment to engage in casual reading on the topic, follow the debate in an ill-informed manner, while enjoying the practical benefits !
    Always wanted to do a DIY induction annealer. Where'd you get the parts and plan from? Or is this original puffin magic?

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