[Jewelry making - Article 00956] - Re: [Orchid] Casting small round bars

[kevdan]

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    Are you using copper to alloy your sterling silver with or are you
    using a deox alloy. Some alloys are easier to work with than others
    depending on what you are doing with them, milling or casting. Are
    you annealing the wire enough before making the jump rings,
    sometimes you may get just one area of the wire hot enough to anneal
    it and miss a little section if you have a kiln you can anneal it in
    there it will give you a real even annealing unlike the torch. I
    have had these similar problems as well and these were some of the
    solutions that I have tried, you still may set some cracking but
    hopefully this helps. sincerely kevin 


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