Hi William.
I built an 'oven' out of 2in Polystyrene sheets and used an electric greenhouse
fan heater turned up to max for heat. To maintain an even temperature I wired
a thermostat from an immersion heater into the mains supply and poked the sensor
probe through the polystyrene. Worked a treat.
Richard Iddon
G-RIXS
Airborne once more.
On 27 Feb 2012, at 11:37, Kelvin Cobb wrote:
> Hi all, I have a 10m autoclave in the Bristol area if anyone needs it.....
> Kelvin (G-BZAM)
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> On Feb 27, 2012 6:04 AM, "keith hickling" <keithhickling@clear.net.nz> wrote:
>
> William,
>
> You need to take the thermostat out of circuit if you are using a fan
> heater. They mostly have the adjustable thermostat which you can turn up
> to about 30 degrees, and an additional safety thermostat which cuts the
> power off at around 40 degrees as far as I recall. Aircraft Spruce
> supply a kit with a thermostat that cuts the power off at about 80
> degrees C and 2 thermometers. I used this as a safety backup, but found
> that I could control the temp at 50 - 70 degrees by manually turning it
> on and off. It would stay close to the required temp for 15 - 20 mins
> after turning off. I also had a seperate fan to keep the air
> circulating. I never went too far away from it during the whole process
> and checked frequently that nothing was melting !
>
> Regards,
> Keith Hickling.
> Keith Hickling,
> New Zealand.
> Kit 613.
>
>
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> Daniell
> Sent: Monday, 27 February 2012 1:08 a.m.
> Subject: Europa-List: post curing
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> I need to post cure my flying surfaces. I constructed a home-made
> "oven" as per the manual and didn't even get within
> hailing distance of the temps required.
>
> Will
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