That makes sense. Heat, moisture and pressure. There you go!
GL Pease Jack Knife Plug- or Is it?
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I might be wrong but i think the steam presses are heated by a steam jacket and the tobacco isn’t actually in contact with the steam.
I've never had a Fluff Plug but I bought all my JKP years back. All were hard as rock. And tough to slice.
Hi guys. I have already been in contact with the OP, and I am sending him a new tin of Jackknife Plug. The condition of his "plug" shown is his photos is definitely not what we would consider acceptable and I have no way of knowing how or why this ended up being packaged back in 2018, but I have pulled several tins at random from our distribution warehouse for inspection. These look as they should. They look like this:
As some have commented, it is true that we have a swing press, but the swing press is only one stage of pressing, basically serving to get plugs, cakes and blocks for flake or shag to form. Once formed, the block is removed, wrapped in paper, labelled and marked with the in date and future out date, and then it is transferred to a hydraulic holding press for several days under roughly 33 tons of pressure. The hydraulic presses are automatically tightened every 30 minutes. Once a plug or crumble cake is removed from holding press, it still isn't done. We cut the block into bars and vacuum seal them at least overnight, usually longer. The vacuum is very tight and helps to make sure that the edges of each bar are tightly squeezed. This is the way we have been making plugs since we introduced JKP, which was C&D's first plug.
As always, If anyone has an issue with one of our products, we are and always have been interested to know about it, so that we can fix it. We stand by our customers and we stand by our product. If something is wrong, we want to fix it.
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As always, If anyone has an issue with one of our products, we are and always have been interested to know about it, so that we can fix it. We stand by our customers and we stand by our product. If something is wrong, we want to fix it.
Email me personally at: info@cornellanddiehl.com
Call me personally at: 800-433-0080
Message me on this forum
Hit me up on IG
I am pretty easy to reach.
Thanks for that! Much appreciated. Running a business and making 100% of the people happy is no easy task. Until you run a business people won't ever know that. No matter how how you try sometimes shit just goes wrong. And other times, some people are never happy, no matter what you do.
@jeremyreeves Hip-hip hooray and thank you for the inside info.
Excellent update Jeremy. Those look good to me!
Hey Jeremy, I love to see my favorite GLP blend Spark Plug in a flake form. Just another thing it ponder
