Working on building a new machine at my warehouse. A regular iron (as in clothes iron) will be continuously activating hot melt adhesive to bond two thin materials. Machine un-feeds 1 roll of 3" fiberglass tape, 1 roll of 3" hot melt adhesive and 1 roll of another type of tape.

Currently using regular iron which works fine. However the "auto off" feature means we need to stop machine, pick up and shake iron and then re-start.

I can't seem to find any irons for sale that DON'T have auto off. I thought I found one (website said that it was non-auto off), but when it arrived, it had the feature.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

 

Reliable Digital Velocity V100 Compact Vapor Generator Iron
This one claims to be able to switch off the auto function, and confirmed in the feedback comments.
Max.

 

Thanks Max, but it looks like it is no longer available....

 

Working on building a new machine at my warehouse. A regular iron (as in clothes iron) will be continuously activating hot melt adhesive to bond two thin materials. Machine un-feeds 1 roll of 3" fiberglass tape, 1 roll of 3" hot melt adhesive and 1 roll of another type of tape.

Currently using regular iron which works fine. However the "auto off" feature means we need to stop machine, pick up and shake iron and then re-start.

I can't seem to find any irons for sale that DON'T have auto off. I thought I found one (website said that it was non-auto off), but when it arrived, it had the feature.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Ideas: There is a possibility that simply interrupting power to the iron for a short time (perhaps 0.1s, perhaps 5s) will reset the auto-off feature. Easy to try by simply cutting power very briefly (before or after auto-off has initiated) to see if iron remains hot. If reset is possible, then either a manual switch (push to reset auto-off) or an automated/timed electronic switch could be useful. Or it might be possible to design an electronic switch that senses when auto-off has occurred (by reduced current drawn by iron) and then cycles power. Yet another scheme: Simply cycle power at some fixed interval--any interval short enough that auto-off does not engage.

 

Clever! And simple to implement! I like it!

Thanks!

 

Have you considered using a laminator rather than an iron ?

Les.

 

That is a good idea. As a matter of fact, that is what our business does for the insulation world. We laminate 4' x 8' insulation boards with various facings.

This is just a special order for 200 rolls of this 3" wide material. Only 1 customer uses it and rarely orders it. So not worth building a sophisticated machine for this application.

I finally found and iron that has a feature that you can cancel the auto-off. Hopefully that will solve the problem.