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- Wed Apr 01, 2009 4:12 am
- Forum: Equipment and Tools (e.g., ski press, core profiler, etc)
- Topic: Heated Press Question - Newbie's First Post
- Replies: 4
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Ive seen this done where a guy makes a plane (real ones not rc). For most parts he made a covered frame to place over the part and an electric space heater was used to heat it. Because the part was kept off the ground by quite a bit, the heat rose to the part, while the heaters were down low where ...
- Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:57 am
- Forum: Equipment and Tools (e.g., ski press, core profiler, etc)
- Topic: I built my own press - no vacuum pump or compressor needed!!
- Replies: 38
- Views: 39939
I'm a newbie and a non-engineer who's never built a pair of skis, but this seems to make a lot of sense to me. It seems like you could heat the water up just before you put the boards in the press, cover the whole thing up with a sleeping bag or electric blanket or whatever, and have a pretty low co...
- Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:46 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Tools (e.g., ski press, core profiler, etc)
- Topic: Heated Press Question - Newbie's First Post
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4036
Heated Press Question - Newbie's First Post
First of all, this site and all of the projects are way cool. Thanks for all the info from all of you. Now, I see people going to all kinds of trouble to heat up their presses. If it changes the way the epoxy cures for the better, it makes sense. But is there any reason that the actual press itself ...