i only want to know about fiber blankets stopping my beads/other stuff from cracking easily
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No - mostly Once your beads get up to a certain thickness, not using a heated anneal will sharply increase the chances of cracking - either on the first cool or when they are subjected to stress - like being worn on a warm body and exposed to winter chill or kept in air conditioning and taken out in 100F sun like here just now It is possible to delay how early in your process you have to have a kiln if you are good at relieving stress by heating evenly to lower temperatures at the torch (flame annealing) and putting lots of insulation over the beads The problem is that physics wants to cool the beads the fastest at high temperatures, but annealing wants to hold the longest at high high temps - which requires power to slowly lower the tempA kiln without a ramping control can help this by soaking at the high end to relieve stress and then moderate the fall in temperature by the mass of the kiln materials.
