Wearing of ceramic glass platen

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Yes, but only if you're using the platen hard enough to make it hot. I have not heard of this being a problem with Kallys.

I do one event every year where it's not unusual for me to let my Kallys run non-stop for an hour or two every day for a week. You can try it yourself. The Baldor motors are rated for continuous duty at 40°C ambient temperature. Nothing gets hot.

I've sold lots of modified Kally platens in the past decade without a single word of them wearing, although they have to wear as much as the ones I've been using. I just don't think a little wear at the top edge makes any difference.

It would be very easy for me to re-flatten the steel platens I make, but they'll always wear again. If you do nothing they do seem to stop wearing past the little bit at the top.

My 2x72s get glassed immediately because that type of duty is a totally different ballgame.

Thank you Mark, 

May I see the modified Kally platen?