CKCO-TV (aka CTV Southwestern Ontario) recently did an item on the Papertrail for their Made Right Here series which features area businesses that have interesting products or services. The 3-minute item was broadcast April 28th 2018, but is also available…
Category: Presses
The K-W Maker Expo, Saturday September 19th
The local maker club, Kwartzlab, is spearheading a big event coming up on Saturday, September 19th, 2015 called Maker Expo. This free event centered around Kitchener City Hall will feature all kinds of people and organizations who make things, about…
Our second papermaking press
From some of the lessons I learned from our first press, I made a new one out of aluminum. I had the chance to practice my (horrible) skills at welding this metal, but ended up with a press that was…
Our first papermaking press
This is a press which I made for Audrey even before we bought the Papertrail; we have since stopped using it and sold it. The following details are drawn from memory so dimensions might not be exact. The cross-beams were…
Papermaking presses
We have two presses which are used in papermaking to press excess water out of the sheets and also to make the sheets thinner and denser. The one we use regularly is actually a power hydraulic 30-ton arbor press assembled…
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