Topic: did salvatore ysart have had problems with annealing?

[incazzatonero]

if that is a salvatore ysart weight (with annealing cracks), could it be possible that he have had problems with the handling of the techniques and so on?

[Frank]

Certainly at Moncrieff annealing gave problems. At Shore Road the annealing lehr was primitive but annealing problems are not usual. So the answer is yes and no... :spls: It could have happened later though.

[KevinH]

Many weights (and some bottles) from the early Vasart years end up with fractures. I have an example with a crack through the full centre and I am expecting it to fall into two parts one day! I also have some Paul Ysart weights that have fractures.

I don't think it means a particular problem with the annealing but any stresses that did remain could easily have been stable for many years until, for whatever reason (perhaps temperature or collision) they result in a fracture.