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| Cheap Foil Coffee Pouch Sealer
I started with me trying to find a heat sealer for 250gm
coffee bags. Now this isn't a simple area and there are lots of heat sealers
about . Budget operated foot sealers at £125, plus VAT and delivery. Spiffing
stuff I thought I will have one of those, BUT beware, a bit of careful checking
and "no sir these are impulse heat sealers and only a 2mm seal width and NOT
suitable for foil/plastic coffee bags". "oh I said", "but sir we do have a
constant heat sealer model that is ideal for that task only£395 <gulp>
Now I'm not kidding and have used
a foot operated sealer costing £600, this little puppy seals just as well!
8-10 seconds and it will seal in one clip a 250g coffee bag with a nice
wide seal, not the wimpy 5mm jobs. It will seal a 1kg bag in two goes (one each
half). The 1kg bag was one of the thickest foil/PE coffee bags I have ever seen
and it was no trouble!!
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He
said that when they started out they used an iron to seal the bags....damm good
idea I thought. The next day went examining my wifes iron, few tests in the
garage, got thumped...so returned iron! 
So I
had another bright idea....hair straighteners! 
and
it is fantastic. It runs at about 200c, constant heat, 1 min warmup, has ceramic
plates and no real inclination to stick to the bag. If a little plastic
does get stuck to the plates, just use a thickish cotton cloth and with the
plates nice and hot, place it between the plates, clamp and pull it out....takes
all the crud off the plates.