As I have gathered information about CCH over the last few years, in preparation of "taking the plunge" myself, pardon the pun, I have often wondered why you couldn't just drop the crucible into the quench, as you described. But, then I wondered that, if cold water is supposed to be better, maybe the water that entered the crucible after the lid came off would be warmed so much upon entering that it wouldn't give the desired effect. Evidently not, by your nice results. Any thoughts on that?
Any way you could post some pics of your crucible?
Thanks, SRH
