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Jeff Clausen
12-19-2000, 03:25 PM
like the new format.
Somewhere in my memory I have seen an ad for custom platens. Believe these were 12" long. Thinking about one for my Bader BIII. Anyone know who does these?
THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
Jeff

Jason G Howell
12-24-2000, 08:22 PM
Jeff, The Bader BIII has got to have the worse platen out of the box. Piece of angle iron... I took a piece of 9"x2" precision ground O1, heat treated it and tacked it onto my bader platen. I moved it back to accomodate of course, and lowered my rest to the bottom(*). When I wear my platen down, I will pop the beads and tack a new one on. I was going to fly-cut a piece of angle, cut it down to 9" sections, drill and slot, but the shop time was not worth the trouble!

(*)As I wear the platen down next to the rest(like profiling), I ease my rest up as I go.