Annealing Brass Sheet Metal

In furnace and is there any trick to get it very very soft kenching in water or alcool methanol thks by advance for every replies nathalie.

Annealing brass sheet metal.

Hello i have a piece of brass sheet cu 60 zn 40 15cm x 8 cm x 4mm thick. Annealing is a heat treatment process in which the sheet metal is altered on a molecular level altering its strength and hardness. What you are looking for as you apply the flame of your blow lamp torch onto the part to be annealed is the tell tale colors again. During the annealing process the metal is heated to a specific temperature where recrystallization can occur.

It it possible to anneal it to get e a very soft malleable sheet. What would be the annealling temp. When the brass starts to show a blackened color then is the time to quench it quickly before. The metal is heated above its recrystallization temperature maintained at this temperature and then cooled in a controlled environment.

Annealing brass is very similar to copper although the temperature should be a little cooler. In metallurgy and materials science annealing is a heat treatment that alters the physical and sometimes chemical properties of a material to increase its ductility and reduce its hardness making it more workable it involves heating a material above its recrystallization temperature maintaining a suitable temperature for an appropriate amount of time and then cooling.