That's an interesting response, but for it to be true the AMP folks would have to actually be falsifying their independent lab analysis of the actual softening that occurred in the subject brass. Is that what you are saying they did - published falsified results? Just curious, as a sort of a scientific type I can't see any other way to take that.
Thanks,
Rex
They didn't falsify anything. They're simply claiming that full annealing, as opposed to recovery annealing, is the only proper way to anneal. They don't state it in those terms but if you understand the science behind it that's fundamentally what's going on.
The benefit of Salt Bath Annealing is that the temperature is limited, thereby ensuring the brass stays in recovery (at those temps, full annealing is possible but would require far more time than we're going to hold it by hand). Since AMP has taken the position that recovery annealing isn't proper annealing, that's how they arrive at the claim that SBA doesn't work.
