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10 hours ago, Dex said:7 layers is too much.
It depends on what the layers are. If only the lining and bottom are steel (the remainder being some combination of aluminum bonded with silver), then counting layers doesn't mean much. There's no practical evenness advantage from such a layup--it's done to help dimensional stability.
If the core is high conductivity, the basic judgment should be thickness, not the number of layers.
10 hours ago, Dex said:7 layers is too much.
It depends on what the layers are. If only the lining and bottom are steel (the remainder being some combination of aluminum bonded with silver), then counting layers doesn't mean much. There's no practical evenness advantage from such a layup--it's done to help dimensional stability.
