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Title: Labelling Cheeses - Indenting Numbers and Letters
Post by: darius on April 27, 2011, 11:12:01 PM
Is anyone aware of a source for food-grade numbers or alphabet letters that can be molded into cheese?
Title: Re: Labelling Cheeses - Indenting Numbers and Letters
Post by: Tomer1 on April 28, 2011, 12:32:31 AM
thin HDPE sheet cut with a razor blaze
Title: Re: Labelling Cheeses - Indenting Numbers and Letters
Post by: darius on April 28, 2011, 01:39:17 AM
Ahh, that would work. I was hoping for something thicker, like 1/8" or so...
Title: Re: Labelling Cheeses - Indenting Numbers and Letters
Post by: glasman on April 28, 2011, 11:53:25 AM
pete dixon uses old bucket material. could maybe punch it out with a stencil cutter
Title: Re: Labelling Cheeses - Indenting Numbers and Letters
Post by: coffee joe on April 28, 2011, 12:20:16 PM
I've been doing hand cut HDPE and they don't come out as clean as I would like. Great if there were something industrialized in various sizes.  24pt and 30 pt if there is anyone out there with a source
Title: Re: Labelling Cheeses - Indenting Numbers and Letters
Post by: Tomer1 on April 28, 2011, 12:31:58 PM
Quote from: darius on April 28, 2011, 01:39:17 AM
Ahh, that would work. I was hoping for something thicker, like 1/8" or so...

sure you can find it in various thickness all the way up to 2 inchs used for gas\oil pipelines.
Look for an industrial plastic supplier which can cut you a sheet.
It sells by the wight (calculated according to density of matirial-you have different types of PE,area and thickness) and is fairly cheep and easy to work with (sharp knife,jig or punching with a hot nail)