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Old 2013-09-19, 5:54am
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no....crashing your kiln and letting it cool on it's own (while this may prevent breakage) is not annealing.
you really need to have the kiln progammed so that it will ramp down slowly. once your at a certain point, you can crash it.
i usually turn mine off at 450f....way below the strain point.
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