To Quench or not to Quench

[Keia]

I don't quench. I put the items on a tile until it's cool. I have a quench bowl next to my slow cooker, but that's to rinse the pickle off =)

[Tabby66]

None quencher here.....onto a steel block to cool!!

[FloWolF]

If annealing raw cut stock that I want as ductile as I can get, then into cold water it goes, but for after soldering it goes into hot pickle at about 55 -65 c ('cos that's about how hot my old filter coffee maker gets it lol!).

If I've cast the 'lump' myself then I give it a quick while to air cool, then into the hot pickle.

I may be doing it all wrong - but it seems to just about work so I can't be that far off - I haven't the experience yet to say for certain ',;~}~


Shaun.

[Nick martin]

After reading this thread, and doing a little experimentation, I'm a newly converted 'non quencher'.

Steel block after soldering and annealing it is from now on.

Nick


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