But I AM allowed to touch Wires.

We settled in Sunday for… well, for hoping.  I’d contacted the guy who sold us the shop and asked if he had any thoughts about the plate burner.  He was kind enough to stop by and take a look.  There’s a counter on the front that we thought was for tracking burns, but it was a photocell control.  He reset that, and verified the circuit breakers hadn’t triggered, but it still was no go.

After some head scratching, and a lot of thinking, I theorized that the safety switch that keeps you from burning your face off might have gone bad.  After a conference with Will, we jury-rigged a bypass.

Victory!

We burned a couple plates and got something printed (after a crazy amount of futzing with the paper feeder).  We’re back at it.

But my first action was to put a warning sign on the plate burner.  Burning our faces off for the sake of art would be a little much.  Don’t worry.  The Plate Burner is perfectly safe as long as it’s off.