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[Sean T. Stevenson via Personal_Submersibles]

Annealing temperatures are lower than forming temperatures, so you should be shy of the plastic deformation limit, but you need to be wary of the potential for local hot spots that are not necessarily represented by your oven temperature measurement. Hence the requirement for forced air circulation, which should help to even out the applied temperature. You also want to avoid having a completely sealed oven - you want to bleed some air, and have some makeup air draw. Something like two air changes per hour, which will serve to vent off any polymer or contaminant vapors that could otherwise condense on the acrylic surface during cooling. Consequently, you also need to be careful to avoid cold spots as a result of the makeup air. Put some thought into the convection. You don't need 100% support of the dome at annealing temperatures, but it could be useful to constrain the base in order to provide some dimensional stability. Whatever you do, you don't want to interfere with the ability of that heat to soak in and to conduct out though.

Sean

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On Aug. 29, 2019, 18:04, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles wrote:

> Hi All,
> I am getting close to my first anneal of my acrylic prior to machining.  I have a new radius cutting attachment built to machine the new dome and the oven is done tomorrow.  I also have a detail plan on machining steps.  The only item not resolved is, do I need to support the dome in the oven when I do the final annealing?
> Hank
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