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Caution: When Using The Noodle Press to Make Plugs
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<blockquote data-quote="RSteve" data-source="post: 569400" data-attributes="member: 164"><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Yikes. Day 5 and today there was still room for another crank on the press. In the John Seiler </span><a href="http://www.naspc.org/Archives/tobaccopressing.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 18px">essay</span></a><span style="font-size: 18px">, which I excerpted in the original pressing thread, Seiler wrote of only three days of progressively tightening. I really hope I'm not making the rollcake too tightly compressed.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Seiler wrote:</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>"The questions arise, (1) how long to leave the tobacco in the press and (2) how to apply pressure. This you can only determine through experimentation. Generally, I found that you apply a lot of pressure initially and then keep checking to see that the pressure is maintained. I got good results if I pressed the tobacco over three days, keeping a constant pressure applied after the initial pressing. You also got a harder pressed cake."</strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RSteve, post: 569400, member: 164"] [SIZE=5]Yikes. Day 5 and today there was still room for another crank on the press. In the John Seiler [/SIZE][URL='http://www.naspc.org/Archives/tobaccopressing.html'][SIZE=5]essay[/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=5], which I excerpted in the original pressing thread, Seiler wrote of only three days of progressively tightening. I really hope I'm not making the rollcake too tightly compressed. [B]Seiler wrote: "The questions arise, (1) how long to leave the tobacco in the press and (2) how to apply pressure. This you can only determine through experimentation. Generally, I found that you apply a lot of pressure initially and then keep checking to see that the pressure is maintained. I got good results if I pressed the tobacco over three days, keeping a constant pressure applied after the initial pressing. You also got a harder pressed cake."[/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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