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Old 26-08-21, 01:08
Peter Phillips Peter Phillips is offline
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Originally Posted by Lynn Eades View Post
Copper should be copper. Has anyone tried annealing the washers?
Copper work hardens pretty quickly and heating them to red hot softens them again.
In theory, should last for ever.
Actually I did follow advice and annealed the new washers with success. Lots of instances on the inter-web around the same issues....you'd think it wouldn't be an issue but...
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