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A boro newbie here. I am trying to sort out how to get started using boro at my home studio. I have done soft glass for about 6 months, and took a boro class a few weeks ago.

With the soft glass, I have batch annealed pretty much everything, so I am now trying to figure out what would work best for the boro glass. It will be mostly smaller beads, marbles and pendants. My kiln is a bead cube, with a digital controller.

My questions:
- At the class, I would put glass pieces that had gone cold into the kiln at garaging temperature (950 F). I would never do this with soft glass, but is it okay to do with boro? For example: I made a glass chain in the class about a yard long. I made it in one go, so by the time I was making the 4th link, the first link would be cold. So when it went into the kiln, 95% of the chain was room temperature.
- Can I batch anneal boro pieces?
- If I have non striking colors (like crayon colors) can I put those through a striking program together with the striking colors, or would that be a bad idea?

Thanks!