Yes, it is indeed the Mic-6 of Alcoa fame. I know that it is already annealed in the process, but because of the size of the stock, they were saw cut to 1.00" wide at the distributor. This is where I am thinking stress was re-introduced to the material -- though I'm not entirely sure.
I went over the other two pieces of stock and they look a lot more straight/flat than the first bar that we used. We are getting ready to rough out the slot in the first piece of material to see how that reacts before we start on the next two pieces. |