The Secret Society of Lathe Trolls

Steam trap on the return condensate line goes to the feed water tank (so no steam) for our boiler on our 3 way valve (Hamilton). This helps prevent the chilled water heating up too quickly if you have a smaller chiller or no cooling tower. Our SMT is similar to your setup without the trap on the inp...

But why would someone want to polish the stamper? That makes no kind of sense from my perspective. I only know mothers beeing polished (dehorning). Bernd There is a certain chrome polished often used to polish stampers that have label moisture stains or very light scratches. From my knowledge and i...

For anyone curious, we've seemed to have resolved our stitching issues mechanically on our smt. The cylinders that thread onto the four posts that are tightened with a side pin hole spanner must have loosened over the many cycles from vibration. I noticed when it was pressing the frame had the small...

Something that has helped us recently has been increasing the pre heat and trap time. increasing the preheat to blow out all of the condensed and chilling water from the molds leaving only steam. My assumption is that we lowered those times to a point where water was settling on the face of the uppe...

we're also having some issue with smt stitching, have checked a ton of things i.e. hydraulic pressure, bolster plates being tight, new molds, old molds, mold temp, heating time and cooling time, water temp, water header pressure; stitching is moving around from side to side and random placement.. go...

Agreed, no paper from labels, hasn't been on the floor and has gone directly into the garbage pail for collection. It's good to go.
You can always add a magnetic sifter if applicable, but clean practices always prevail.

Why separate? We granulate flash and use straight into the hopper or blend with virgin. No issues