[Healeys] Copper washers.

[WILLIAM B LAWRENCE]

Looks right, but they do make it more complicated than necessary. I just hang
it on a piece of wire with a hooked end and hit it with a propane torch until
it glows. Then just let it cool while you do something else and it's ready
when you are.
Bill Lawrence

> From: grday at btinternet.com
> To: jarowe at westnet.com.au; simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk
> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:14:37 +0000
> CC: healeys at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Copper washers.
>
> I think this page talks our language, covers what we need to know and how to
> do it.
>
>
http://www.motorcycle.co.uk/Reference-material/Annealling-Copper---Aluminium-
washers.aspx
>
>
> All the best
>
> Guy R Day
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Rowe" <jarowe at westnet.com.au>
> To: "Simon Lachlan" <simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk>
> Cc: "Healey List" <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Copper washers.
>
>
> > Hi Simon
> >
> >
> > Don't quench in water or oil or anything.
> >
> > Quenching makes any metal go hard or brittle etc.
> >
> > To anneal just heat to cherry red and allow to cool in the ambient
> > temperature.
> >
> > It will then become soft and malleable.
> >
> > Trust me, plumbers do that all the time here in WA as the water piping is
> > required to be cold drawn, ie hard and stiff, and to expand the pipe to
> > make a joint the pipe requires annealing.
> >
> > cheers from WA
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Simon Lachlan" <simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk>
> > To: "'Healeys'" <healeys at autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:45 PM
> > Subject: [Healeys] Copper washers.
> >
> >
> >>I need a copper washer. So, I've got a box of new ones of various sizes.
> >>All the wrong sizes.
> >> I've got a box of sundry old flat washers amongst which is an old copper
> >> washer of the right size. But it's old and has presumably ceased being
> >> soft and malleable.
> >> I'm not even sure that I can even spell "annealing" at this time of
> >> night,
> >> but isn't it the process by which one applies heat to restore metal's
> >> previous malleability? Do I heat it cherry red and then quench it in
> >> water
> >> or is it oil or what?
> >>
> >> It's a lot to ask for one copper washer, but a)my daughter* pinches my
> >> daily
> >> tintop to go to work so I can't go and buy one and b) I like to know
> >> these things.
> >> *If she can't use my car, she can't earn enough to buy her own car! I'm
> >> going to pay half, but she's got to learn!
> >> Simon
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