In a message dated 4/06/2001 10:01:16 PM, PRJ wrote: <<"Generally, heating brass does little more than make it hot;">> Paul yes this is true unless you get the brass hot enough to rearrange the molecular structure. This process is called "annealing" and is a well accepted technique for metals and glass. You can't just get it "hot"....... you have to bring it almost to the point of melting before this change happens. An old 'brittle' piece of metal will become mallable and lose most of the britlleness that comes from work hardening and or age(?). There is quite a bit on this subject in the archives if you can ever find it! :-) <<"the addition of solder is new to me and deserves some time to see the longevity.">> This is/was new to me also and I will be as interested to get a few more years behind the procedure.................... The point needs to be made though that I did not just use "solder" but rather used 'silver solder' which is a much stronger material/method than any, or at least most, of the more common "solders". Jim Bryant (FL)
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