I bought an aluminum sheet once. It was expensive and tough to handle, just like a thick sheet of glass. But what the heck, I thought, let's have a couple of handles welded to it, can't do that with glass, right? I should have known better. After the welding job, the whole aluminum sheet was warped and FUBAR. Regards Ralph W. Lambrecht On 12/9/04 9:30 PM, "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "DarkroomMagic" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "PureSilverNew" <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 9:13 AM > Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Dry Mount Press for sale > > >> Richard is right about the heat conductivity and aluminum >> having an >> advantage, but I still prefer just plain glass. It is much >> cheaper, easy to >> obtain and nearly perfectly flat. >> >> >> >> >> >> Regards >> >> >> >> Ralph W. Lambrecht >> > And makes a lovely mess if you drop it:-) > Unfortunately thick sheet aluminum is expensive. > > --- > Richard Knoppow > Los Angeles, CA, USA > dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > ============================================================================== > =============================== > To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your > account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) > and unsubscribe from there. ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.