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Originally Posted by AC_Hacker
I think using his homemade plates for staple up would work just the same, except that the heat transfer wouldn't be as good, since the heat has to travel up through more floor, and then there are the greater radiant losses in the downward direction.
I found it interesting how much fall-off there was at the outer edge of the plates, which says to me that if the plates were wider, the heat transfer improvements would be greater.
Gary was using plates that were 0.018" thick, I'd really like to know what 0.025" would perform like.
-AC_Hacker
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He says his press will only handle 2 ft. sections of the .018 coil stock, I'm not sure how easy it would be to press thicker plates. I'm thinking of making a similar press, but with the end of the pressing pipe curled to allow me to press a section, lift, feed more in, press again. That way I could press a continuous sheet and cut it to the length I need.