Salt anneal pla
I had this idea spent a bunch of time and money proofing the idea in SAND a while ago and got 1 successful anneal that retained dimensional spec in sand. Using salt however seems more efficient and cleaner cause sand is dirty. I think there is however, a trick to having it retain dimensional spec, even buring it in salt, and that is to compress the entire package put it under spring compression during the anneal.
I might mess around with this in the summer.
Theoretically you can anneal over PETG safe temps i.e. petg is good up to 80c, you can anneal to over 100c. I guess you could also just anneal the PETG then. Anyways it's got potential but it's a shoddy and annoying process, and can fail dimension ally if the process isn't good. Seems interesting tho.
I might mess around with this in the summer.
Theoretically you can anneal over PETG safe temps i.e. petg is good up to 80c, you can anneal to over 100c. I guess you could also just anneal the PETG then. Anyways it's got potential but it's a shoddy and annoying process, and can fail dimension ally if the process isn't good. Seems interesting tho.
It's taking forever to cool down I figure another hour and I'll just quench it in water if it's still warm. I believe this should react the same as metal, slow cool down eases stress and reduces brittleness, while instant quench theoretically would explode my glass vessel... but would make a very very hard part that will shatter rather than crunch, but may be stronger, will try both.
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