two things:
first. one of the ways i anneal wire is to throw a coil of romex any
gauge into a fire in the fireplace late in the evening when the embers
are glowing brightly and hot. i let the heat burn the insulation off
(air pollution, i know but look at a truck's exhaust stack sometime). In
the morning i fish the coil out of the ashes and viola, i have annealed
wire. thing is you need to have one of those nylon pot scrubbers to
clean the residue off the wire when you use it. don't uncoil and clean
it all at once, uncoiling causes the wire to lose some softness.

the other thing: please put the reply BEFORE the copied thread. most of
the time i know about the thread and all of the posts and don't need to
read each again. i would like to just get to the message and skip all
the extra stuff.

just my two cents

art