gEDA-user: home made hot plate

[Mark Rages]

On 3/4/07, Mike Hansen <mehansen10 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Why not just get a 1/4" slab of aluminum, throw some thermal expoxy on the
> bottom(or thermal paste I suppose) and just drop the plate of aluminum down
> on top of the hot plate?  You could also embed a thermistor or thermocouple
> in the plate to determine temp.  This gets you the simplicity of the
> hotplate and the uniform thermal distribution you need for a very low cost.
> A plate like this can be had at McMaster Carr for <$40, ground to <0.002"
> tolerance.
>

The true do-it-yourselfer can make any plate flat with Whitworth's
three-plate method.

Regards,
Mark
markrages at gmail

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