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Author: Chris P
Date: 2018-08-05 00:04
Warming the key up a bit won't make any difference - you'll need to get the key glowing red hot to significantly soften the metal which will in turn destroy the plating and the hard solder joints.
Keys are often already annealed from them being hard soldered during manufacture and can mostly be bent cold without any problems, that is if you know where and how much you can bend them by. Unless the alloy is a particularly hard or brittle alloy, then they risk fracturing if you bend them - also bending them too much will work harden the metal and that will cause it to break if overdone.
Doing a Uri Geller by rubbing them with your fingers to warm them up by one or two degrees won't soften the metal, nor will warming them up with a gentle heat source such as breathing on them, focussing the sun on them with a magnifying glass, using a hairdryer, hot air torch, alcohol burner or using a general purpose gas torch - if such low temperatures were to soften the metal, then pad cups and whatnot will distort when installing the pads with enough heat to melt the hot glue or shellac.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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