Moisture Meters?

[Farrell]

I've oven dried pieces of spruce in the past in an effort to measure MC 
directly, but I've never been able to reach an identifiable end point where 
the weight would stabilize after a period of time. It would go along at a 
rate and then slow considerably. It was probably dry when the rate of weight 
loss slowed - but it was so hard to identify. I suspect volatile organic 
compounds escaping the wood accounted for the very slow rate of weight loss 
after the water had escaped - but again, I found it very difficult to 
identify the point at which I could call the wood dry.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
>> How do you establish with accuracy what your beginning EMC is before you 
>> pop
>> it in the over?
>>
>> David Love
>
> By weighing the sample before and after drying and doing the math, 
> presuming that two pieces of wood from the same plank in the same 
> atmosphere would be starting at the same MC - see?
>
> Ron N
>