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The construction forum is for the discussion of techniques on the construction phase of AFV modelling and the tools and materials used. |
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| Subject: | Re: Softening photo-etch parts |  |
| Date: | Feb 22, 2005 |
| From: | Adam Lunoe | |
| The hot/cold cycling has a different effect on the internal crystalline structure of the metal, and being that ferrous alloys are very different from copper alloys I would be surprised more if quenching from incandescent heat hardened copper. Copper has a property of work hardening that steel does not, and it is generally the reversal of work hardening that is the aim in annealing copper. Reading the review it sounds like work hardening was the culprit as Damon mentions the storage box etch fracturing when he bent it, and that is classic work hardening... |
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