eeb,

It had been about 24 hrs. since the previous application of browner, Laurel Mtn., and I just decided to heat the barrel with boiling water instead of a propane torch, which is how I had been heating it before applying the solution. I didn't plan this, it just happened.

Seems that pouring the boiling water over the barrel (I held it vertically and let the hot water run down into a bucket) did the same thing as an immersion in boiling water. Amazingly even and uniform, too.

SRH

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