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Started by JBS 181, February 01, 2011, 07:50:09 PM

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JBS 181

Where I live all I deal with is pine and the climate is dry. What kind of moisture reading am I looking for when it is more or less done shrinking and ready to be ran through a planer? Where is a "happy point" as far as moisture content goes, when a person could get away without putting stickers in between the boards? Thank You for the help

Ianab

This page has a table for working you the Equilibrium for wood at various humidity and temperature.

http://www.csgnetwork.com/emctablecalc.html

Humidity is the most important, you can pretty much ignore the temperature.

So if your average humidity is 30%, then dry wood will be approx 6% moisture.

It doesn't need to be exact, so if it's 7 or 8, probably close enough. Same thing with stickers, take the wood off them when it stops loosing moisture, or is "near enough" anyway.

Ian
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