Greetings, all.

Bruce Clark's comments regarding his use of a "vintage rotary ironer"
to remove the wrinkles from rolls caused me quite a flashback to my
college photography classes. In the various darkrooms were several
sizes of rotary "drum" dryers, used for drying photographic prints.
They utilized a thermostatically heated, chrome plated drum, with
diameters of between three and five feet. The wet prints were placed
on a moving, continuous-loop canvas belt which held the prints firmly
against the surface of the drum as it rotated. Eventually, (it seemed
like eternity, waiting for your prints to appear) the print would drop
out, dried, into a tray. Are there any MMD photographers?

Which brings to mind another contemporary device. What about the "fusing
rollers" in copy machines and laser printers? They operate at much
higher temperatures, but for only a fraction of a second at any given
point on the paper...

Just some thoughts.  Cheers!
Pete Woodworth, San Luis Obispo, California
http://www.calpoly.edu/~cwoodwor/nick.html