Hi All

I just bought a very useful gadget from an auction for $10 That is
going to be useful for player work.

Really, it is an automatic  shirt presser (Used in dry cleaning
stores) but it is proving to be a indispensable item for player work
too.

Here is how it works. It has one rotating padded cloth covered roller
similar to a wringer washer machine. the roller turns about 18 RPM.
There is also a heated 'shoe' that is shaped in a half circle. You
pull a lever and the shoe moves against the roller. Any material  can
them be fit between the heated shoe and roller and smoothed out.

The temperature on the shoe is adjustable with a thermostat similar to
an electric iron. This thing is excellent to remove wrinkles from
bellows cloth, leather and what have you. it is about two foot wide,
so you can iron down a fairly large area.

I got playing with it tonight, running strips of striker cloth through
it right before covering the pneumatic, while the cloth was still warm.
I seem to get a better bond, more working time and no wrinkled cloth!
I even  tried a wrinkled piece of pouch leather (set on low of course)
it came out unwrinkled too, and undamaged.

I also ran an old wrinkled up player roll through it. The machine
straightened it right out.  I think it's a keeper!

The name on the machine is "Thor Auto-magic Gladitron" it's pretty old.

Andy Taylor