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Jon

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Subject : 60" x 90" piece- two piece bottom platen
Posted : 2016-04-14 6:32 AM
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If pressing an oversize flat piece with Evacunet on top, the lower platen has to be made up of two pieces- can they be placed loose beside each other or do they have to be rigidly joined as one piece?
I wasn't sure if the vacuuming process would deflect the two piece platen unless it was one solid piece... Thanks


 
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Don Stephan

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Subject : RE: 60" x 90" piece- two piece bottom platen
Posted : 2016-04-15 7:39 AM
Post #37473 - In reply to #37472
Please forgive my not understanding the situation. You have access to material that an make a substrate 60" x 90" but cannot make a one piece bottom platen that size? And why does the bottom platen have to be two pieces?


 
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Jon

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Subject : RE: 60" x 90" piece- two piece bottom platen
Posted : 2016-04-15 9:38 AM
Post #37474 - In reply to #37473
60 x 90 is the size of the object to be vacuum pressed- a 4x8 sheet of melamine for a platen is 12" too narrow to fit under an object to be vacuum pressed that is 60" wide, hence platen has to be made of two pieces.


 
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Don Stephan

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Subject : RE: 60" x 90" piece- two piece bottom platen
Posted : 2016-04-15 10:43 AM
Post #37475 - In reply to #37474
Melamine is wonderful but platen can be 5 x 10 x 3/4 mdf sprayed with finish to be non stick


 
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ckurak

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Subject : RE: 60" x 90" piece- two piece bottom platen
Posted : 2016-04-15 1:40 PM
Post #37477 - In reply to #37474
I believe melamine can be purchased in 5x8 or 5x10. Check with your melamine suppliers.



 
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Darryl Keil

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Subject : RE: 60" x 90" piece- two piece bottom platen
Posted : 2016-04-15 11:50 AM
Post #37476 - In reply to #37472
They can be loose but I would put a few biscuits in to line things up and hold the platen's roughly together
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