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Old 03-09-2008, 09:25 PM
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Default Re: WeTDrEaM Oven Build. Step by Step

Well Wet, looks like your doing a great job on the oven. It gets a little bit of a pita sometimes, but when you get it done and run your first test and it comes out, good or bad, there's a since of satisfaction. Damn! it works!

I put a window in my first big oven and am glad I did. You can watch the powder change from dust to something that looks more like what it is supposed to be. I also put a IR thermo door in mine so I could open it and check the temp of the parts.

Something to think about also. I had an older German guy that works with temps, PID's and thermocouples everyday, and he told me to put my thermocouple inside a steel pipe, put it through the wall and place a cap on the end inside the oven. That way I would get a true part temp reading. I have a digital thermocouple that is inside the oven and between the two, the oven temp gets higher then the one in the pipe, which is the one I go by for part temp. I had to take a new pic last month, as I couldn't find the original. But it's the same now as then.
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