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Title: did salvatore ysart have had problems with annealing?
Post by: incazzatonero on March 22, 2009, 01:51:51 AM

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?

Title: Re: did salvatore ysart have had problems with annealing?
Post by: Frank on March 23, 2009, 08:33:46 AM

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.

Title: Re: did salvatore ysart have had problems with annealing?
Post by: KevinH on March 23, 2009, 12:32:05 PM

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.