Anneal first. Easiest thing is to leave them on mandrels. You can carefully dip them in the cream or apply the cream to the bead using a plastic palette knife or something similar. Either way, you'll want a tool to remove the excess that collects below the bead so that it doesn't drip off. Wear nitrile gloves. You don't want etching solution on your skin. Leave the cream on aprox. 20 minutes and then remove with your application tool. You then want to neutralize the remaining cream with lime (give the bead a scrub with an old toothbrush while it's in the lime and then rinse.
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