Although many naysayers say why travel down this path, and several have and actually capitulated in defeat, but it has been a wild and informative ride in getting to the core issue & identifying it. As the old adage can be said, >>The Glory is in the Struggle<< and this one has been most informative. I guess adhering to the basic premise of making cases and annealing them properly is at the nexus of the actual solution. One the issue is identified, the Solution is Simple, of course. With >>Fire Forming<< being a critical component in the process, being a benchmark of sorts, to tell you where you are before you exhaust more effort on a compromised case.

Hochachtungsvoll,

Raimey
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