Hi Raise,
Here are a couple of views. Made with 3mm plywood, pallete tape and a foam "riser" where the imprint goes. Works great for short sleeves. I have an idea for a double long sleeve, but that's going to take some real engineering and a blowtorch.
Nice job Ian with my machine I just use the pocket platen, but I believe the platens for the anajet are much different then mine, since mine just sit on top of the printbed, while yours attach to the machine right?
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Ian, thanks for the pic's. BobbieLee you are correct about out platens they slide down a sleeve that the machine moves in and out. This is not meant to be negative but they won't go low enough to print on some prestreached canvas from Hobby Lobby. Ian has given me by his pic's some ideas, thats why this forum is so great! Thanks All...John
Hi Raise,
Here are a couple of views. Made with 3mm plywood, pallete tape and a foam "riser" where the imprint goes. Works great for short sleeves. I have an idea for a double long sleeve, but that's going to take some real engineering and a blowtorch.
Wow, that's pretty cool.
Did you extend an existing platen with the plywood or did you fabricate the entire platen system including the bolt?
In my "beta" version I just flipped the board on a small youth platten (so the flat part was forward) and sandwitched the thin plywood between the plexy board and the aluminum table on the "spindle" attachement. This left me with not enough print area for what I was shooting for.. so I just created a square of the same wood and made it exactly the same size as the aluminum that the table floats on and screwed it down tight (removing the leveling springs and screws. I use a piece of foam 8mm tall and cut to the size to do a 4x4 print. Anajet does have a "pocket attachment" that studs into the top of the newer plattens, but printing 2 layers and keeping everything perfectly flat was and is the biggest problem with that method. You have to allow for more clearance. This way is more like it is on screenprinting equipment. One layer flattened out and the hem part is safely below the printing plane making it easy to get real close for sharp printing.
The blow torch...? to cut down spindle and reshape understructure. I agree that if we had more clearance, mods like this might be easier.
Anyone printing sleeves? 
with my machine I just use the pocket platen, but I believe the platens for the anajet are much different then mine, since mine just sit on top of the printbed, while yours attach to the machine right?
