Heat strips

[Bow man]

Thanks Dave let me ask you this do you think 1 strip is capable of maintaing 170 f in a standard hot box ?

Not sure how that would work.  we put them right in the form with a layer of insulating material between then and the bow. We put one on top and one on bottom

[Roy from Pa]

I'm fine wif the link...

[Crooked Stic]

Here ya go folks.
http://tradarchers.net/forum/index.php/topic,680.0.html

[skeaterbait]

That is pretty wild looking and way more complex than my brain can caculate (kak-uh-late). I would really like to find a PID setup that I can program three different temps at 2 hour intervals. For those who missed it, that is a shameless plug for the brain trust to guide me 

[Flem]

Thats an easy one skeater;
https://www.ink-bird.com/products-temperature-controller-itc310tb.html

[skeaterbait]

Sweet

[Mark R]

I don't know but the guy shur did pull his hands away in a hurry when the press came down, hate to do that all day, hope he has good health insurance with Bear.

[Mike L.]

The only use I've been aware of for the heat strips is in lieu of a heat box; they go on the press itself between the aluminum pressure strip and the formica.  This method makes more sense to me than the heat box; direct, even heat across the bow's surface.  I got a heat controller that was kind of a pain to wire up, but the strips work great, even though I've had a couple of bonehead moments.  I sliced into one of them on accident, and once the thermocouple slipped out cooking a bow at 330 degrees for about an hour until I caught it.  Everything was fine except the bow.  These seem to be the same quality as the ones I bought from Mike Fedora years ago.  Lost those in a house fire.  They weren't on at the time, btw.

[Flem]

Here ya go folks.
http://tradarchers.net/forum/index.php/topic,680.0.html

Unfortunately that link only works if you sign up.

[Crooked Stic]

Yeah you got to register to read it. Not a big deal though.

[BO-R]

Same setup I am using,, T/D limbs done in a hour. depending on your ambient temperature of your work zone you will have to adjust current. I use 2 ktype thermocouples on my form to measure surface temps of the limbs.