Laminating machine

[echnidna]

I got a new (chinese POS) A3 laminator sometime ago and never used it

So wanted to laminate some a3 sheets.
It just doesnt do it , either its not hot enough, or doesn't have enough pressure or is too fast through the rollers.

So does anyone know the operating temp of a pouch laminator?

Can a heat press be used for laminating pouches, if so any idea of temp settings and times.?

[Pat]

Bob, have you got the manual? On the ones at work, I put the heat up to level 4. I'll have a look tomorrow for the actual temps.

[echnidna]

now i reckon I put the manual in a safe place.

trouble is I can never remember where the infernal safe place is.

Or I have a resident safe place monster that gobbles all the goodies up, just like the washing machine monster who gobbles up one sock out of a pair

[ozwinner]

I let ours go for about 10 minutes with the rollers on.
It has a warm up mode where the rollers dont move, but I find it gets cold patches.
Setting around 4ish

Al

[echnidna]

I let ours go for about 10 minutes with the rollers on.
It has a warm up mode where the rollers dont move, but I find it gets cold patches.
Setting around 4ish

Al

Thanks Al and Pat
I might reassemble the pos and turn it on for 10 minutes and see what happens.
Though using a heat press has some attractions

[echnidna]

well I did as Al does
(can't help but think that's an interesting phrase)
turned it on and left it for 10 minutes.
waddya know - it works ok.

[ozwinner]

well I did as Al does
(can't help but think that's an interesting phrase)
turned it on and left it for 10 minutes.
waddya know - it works ok.

I think when you go into the "warm" phase, it only warms between the rollers so the rest of the rollers are luke warm.
Glad it worked ok Bob.


Al

[echnidna]

Thanks Al,
I thought it was a pos coz it takes a lot longer to warm up than my A4 laminator so I was ready to throw it out.

[Pat]

Glad you got it working. The temp for the work beast is 130 C.

[echnidna]

Thanks Pat, I thought they worked at a lot lower temperature.