Just a few tangential questions for someone... 1. Is it not increasingly difficult to bring wood from, say, 6.0% to 4.0% MC, than it is to get it to the initial 6.0%? (Recognizing that the lower the MC, the more unstable the material becomes, until one ends up working with dust). 2. Does component handling and assembly timing not become even more critical at lower MC's? 3. If a panel is pressed, by whatever means, to a radius of 60', would the "net" radius be more on the order of 56' or so? Regardless of the net value, I must assume it can be calculated somehow to be repeatable. 4. What happens if, for whatever reason, the ribs and panel are not in equilibrium with each other at the time of gluing/pressing? IOW, consider that they came from two different hot boxes. 5. How does a heat table relate to a hot box, and the respective virtues of either? If I can't participate in the answers, at least I can stir the pot of confusion! <g> Jim Harvey, RPT Greenwood, SC harvey@greenwood.net ________________________ -- someone who's been in the field too long.
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