>Something about the fact that a panel having assumed a certain set of >dimensions at a given EMC tells me that it shouldnt be able to get smaller >then >those same dimensions at that same EMC. Crushing something often makes it smaller. >Ok... so compressing the panel as described doesnt stop a panel from shrinking >as its moisture content drops... tho it does to some degree inhibit that >shrinking capacity. If it didn't, then the panel could be made to disappear altogether by constraining it during repeated expansion. >I suppose this means that the cells would be even tighter >pulled together as origionally they were when first dried out to the same EMC. Not pulled together - crushed, compressed, deformed, compacted. Very simple. Ron N
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