Reviving Bass Strings in a Hot Air Oven

[SteveXFR]

9 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

You didn't get Dutch ovened at Download I hope..😉

 

Surely at any gig you're almost guaranteed to end up stood behind the person with the worst wind in the audience. 

[Waddo Soqable]

4 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Surely at any gig you're almost guaranteed to end up stood behind the person with the worst wind in the audience. 

😉Best not get in a sleeping bag with 'em tho...

[mr4stringz]

16 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

You didn't get Dutch ovened at Download I hope..😉

Good grief, no. That said the toilets alone are fairly bad.

[mr4stringz]

7 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Surely at any gig you're almost guaranteed to end up stood behind the person with the worst wind in the audience. 

Yes, Mr Realale-Donerfarts. Posh git with his double barrelled name.

[SteveXFR]

I've been guilty of the gig emissions. I'm not going to say I'm innocent. 

At Arctangent festival last month, I drank ale and ate jerk and then got in the pit for Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs. Apologies to anyone behind me.

[Waddo Soqable]

Just now, SteveXFR said:

I've been guilty of the gig emissions. I'm not going to say I'm innocent. 

At Arctangent festival last month, I drank ale and ate jerk and then got in the pit for Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs. Apologies to anyone behind me.

as long as you didn't follow through..😬

[SteveXFR]

10 hours ago, Waddo Soqable said:

as long as you didn't follow through..😬

 

I rarely follow through on my commitments 

[TimR]

On 24/09/2023 at 02:46, Jay2U said:

I've been baking out strings in an oven for a few years already. The result is stunning and lasts for quite some time. As a set of bass strings is expensive, it's worth the effort.

 

 

It's the same effect as boiling strings. You're just removing the skin and oils, but with the added advantage that you don't have any trapped water likely to rust the core. 

 

At 200°c I can't believe there's no effect on the metal.

Edited September 28, 2023 by TimR

[Woodwind]

7 minutes ago, TimR said:

 

 

 

At 200°c I can't believe there's no effect on the metal.

 

 

It won't be getting anywhere near hot enough to anneal the steel, but it will be tempering the metal to some degree and maybe it's this that is helping rejuvenate the string?

[TimR]

It'll just be drying out all the gunk (oil and dead skin) that gets trapped in the coil. 

[sandy_r]

22 hours ago, Woodwind said:

 

 

It won't be getting anywhere near hot enough to anneal the steel, but it will be tempering the metal to some degree and maybe it's this that is helping rejuvenate the string?

 

as mentioned earlier, it's possible that some degree of hydrogen de-embrittlement may be occuring in the steel - it only requires temperatures around 200+ degC and can restore a measure of ductility to the metal

Mechanisms leading to embrittlement aren't fully understood yet, but one of the feasible scenarios could be a combination of stress to the metal plus acidic surface contact

 

 

Edited September 29, 2023 by sandy_r