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cbilton.creator-spring.com There is a common technique for annealing long lengths of wire that I have seen done multiple times which I dont like!
Jewellers will roll up the entire length of wire in to a messy birds nest looking thing and claim its better to anneal it like that. It doesnt work very well!
The wire is now all crossed over making it impossible to evenly anneal it.
Some parts will quickly be annealed and others will have barely begun to get hot. Trying to get the hard to reach parts annealed may even lead to accidently melting some sections!
I understand this technique may be necessary for very long lengths of wire. Making a chain by hand for example you may be annealing wire 2 metres long or more so to coil it up is the only sensible option. If you really need to roll up wire then do it very neatly and try not to have too many gaps amongst the coils. Then it will anneal almost as a solid large ring which is good.
For short lengths of wire that can easily be handled on the bench (anything up to around 120cm I'd say) then keeping it straight and moving across the block as its heated is my preferred technique. This also means the wire doesn't have to be un rolled to be worked on again so the full benefit of annealing is ensured.
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