How do we do it without using a stretcher equipment or without any helping hand?
This is JSF's DIY screen stretching.
I degrease and clean my screens with a lacquer thinner before P.Emulsion is applied.
I tack the mesh with style, how about yours?
I forgot to mention that it is advisable that the mesh should be wet (soak or spray it with water) before you tack it to the wooden frame. In this case, the screen will be more flexible with stretch and be strong enough to handle the tension during the stretch!
hehehe.. "MU-MU" lang pero dependable, kagandahan lang nito un staple wire madali lang bilhin sa hardware madami (@5000pcs/box), mura at laging may stock.
hehehe.. "MU-MU" lang pero dependable, kagandahan lang nito un staple wire madali lang bilhin sa hardware madami (@5000pcs/box), mura at laging may stock.
haha uu nga, madami ng laman ung isang box and 100bux lang, lol, minsan nga lang sumasablay si stapler, pero ok na din ^_^
I used to do it with staples too. But wanted something more even, stronger and easier to remove as well as re stretch. For me, the solutions was gluing my screens.
I bought roller frames from shur-loc, or you can get them at SEFAR:
My screens are 18 x 20 and 18 x 22.
I stretch the mesh on the roller frame. Apply contact cement glue to the face of the wooden frame. Set my
stretched mesh + roller frame upon the wooden frame. Apply a little more glue onto the inner face of the mesh/wood contact area. In less than 60 seconds the stuff starts to dry and it holds already. I can pick up the aluminum roller frame and the wood frame wont fall off. I just take it to the back room, set it down atop my home made forced air drying box (for me wet coated screens) and place boards across it, then old paint cans filled with water as weights.
In 30 mins to 1 hour...I can remove the weight contraption, and cut the screen + wood frame off of the roller frame unit. I leave the newly stretched screen for another 24 hours so the glue will set or cure totally.
I can do three of these in a morning, between working; another three in the afternoon, and so on. At best I could get nine a day. With a moderate work load in the shop that is.
Check out the simple pics.
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I used to do it with staples too. But wanted something more even, stronger and easier to remove as well as re stretch. For me, the solutions was gluing my screens.
I bought roller frames from shur-loc, or you can get them at SEFAR:
My screens are 18 x 20 and 18 x 22.
I stretch the mesh on the roller frame. Apply contact cement glue to the face of the wooden frame. Set my
stretched mesh + roller frame upon the wooden frame. Apply a little more glue onto the inner face of the mesh/wood contact area. In less than 60 seconds the stuff starts to dry and it holds already. I can pick up the aluminum roller frame and the wood frame wont fall off. I just take it to the back room, set it down atop my home made forced air drying box (for me wet coated screens) and place boards across it, then old paint cans filled with water as weights.
In 30 mins to 1 hour...I can remove the weight contraption, and cut the screen + wood frame off of the roller frame unit. I leave the newly stretched screen for another 24 hours so the glue will set or cure totally.
I can do three of these in a morning, between working; another three in the afternoon, and so on. At best I could get nine a day. With a moderate work load in the shop that is.
Check out the simple pics.
That was neat man! Great!
I don't think that is available for sale here in the Philippines, but the way it looks we can improvise the same.
Here's a custom-built stretcher by one of the guys in the forum (CREDITS: MR. PENGGUL)
The only thing that bothers me is the time you spent waiting for the screen to be adhered to the wooden frame and tack it afterwards... and thus I pressumed that you tend to burn your screens the next day?!
That is not the way we do things here in our site. We tend to be more productive than just waiting for something to happen. (We have a tight schedule here ) We do it all in one day! (I hope some guys will agree).
No offense, but if you could do 9 screens a day -- that's no record man. SORRY . You're just a lousy ADVERTISEMENT!
AS THE THREAD SAYS: "DIY SCREEN STRETCHING"
DIY - Do It Yourself
that is,
"How do we do it without using a stretcher equipment or without any helping hand?"
Well, nine a day, while printing all day, is not that bad.
I have other screens done and ready in my storage box for burning. I dont wait to stretch-on-demand for jobs! That's just rediculous anyway. Time and efficiency are a matter not only of on the spot speed guys!
Cycling and preparing "ahead of time" is also useful.
By the way.... it works!
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Start the day with love, end the day with love...but keep a club handy (old cave man philosophy).
Well, nine a day, while printing all day, is not that bad.
I have other screens done and ready in my storage box for burning. I dont wait to stretch-on-demand for jobs! That's just rediculous anyway. Time and efficiency are a matter not only of on the spot speed guys!
Cycling and preparing "ahead of time" is also useful.
By the way.... it works!
Well, I'll give you credits to the stretch man!
Anyway, anyone who is in precision screen printing??? DO IT WITH A STRETCHING EQUIPMENT and test it with a NEWTON METER.
BTW, how did you find the video I posted days ago JOHN?
You mean the one about using photoshop to do 4c seps?
It was good. New to me! So far I just converted my images to CMYK in Phtshp, made an underbase, tweaked the picture for brightness...then run the wilflex easy art halftone plugin to get the seps. For me it was fastest method I got for photoshop work.
I had learned before about splitting channels and saving grescale files and outputting from corel thereafter... all very lengthy. Effective, but lengthy. Then I learned about Bitmapping my split channels (after copying the file of course) directly in Photoshop, to make them into halftone plates right away. That was fast too.
Video was good. Shows, again, the diversity and power of photoshop!
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