u/LongJohnSenders

I picked up all the chemicals to run the NX system to get my feet wet. From what I understand these are phenolic bound so require Acetone for the solvent.

I’m planning on pressing all my stars, is it acceptable to use a minimum quantity of acetone to moisten the material before pressing or do I need to get the material fully wet and keep kneading to dry it to a pressable state?

I made my first batch of BP this week and under milled it and started with 35 mesh charcoal. Milled for 4 hours and did the mesh granulation and it’s, understandably, quite slow.

Can one re ball mill slow material for a substantially longer time? I’m only pressing my BP now so the water add would be minimal.

I’m pressing with a printed 1.187” Id tool to ~1.75 g/cm