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The shop that I work at has acquired a plate type laminating machine to use for glass replacement on phones, due to the rising cost of full display replacement these days This is the machine we have.
I have been trying to iron out the process, but I am still getting bubbles under the glass almost every time. Posted is a picture of my most recent attempt.
Can anyone offer any advice as to why this is happening and how to avoid it? We are using glass with pre-applied adhesive.
Your machine’s vaccum pump is used to keep the pieces from sliding around during the binding process and to remove SOME of the air bubbles, but those pumps typically aren’t strong enough to remove ALL of the air bubbles. For that you need a bubble remover, also known as an autoclave (which isn’t entirely accurate since it’s not a sterilization chamber, but people use the name anyway so I will too). After you’ve finished the relamination you put the finished assembly in the autoclave for a minute or two which pulls out ALL of the air bubbles from the assembly. Some vacuum lamination machines have a built-in autoclave, others do not. I’m guessing yours doesn’t. (PS: I have a vacuum laminator w/autoclave for sale, if you’re interested.)
Hello. What happen when using only bubble remover without using laminating machine? Does the all bubbles disappear without using laminating machine and skip straight to te bubble remover? Thanks
