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tdh646 · June 9th, 2009

I have several old screens that I want to re mesh with 140 mesh. I haven't done it before but found how to do it on Wikianswers. Seems simple but I wanted to know if anyone can tell me their experiences with re meshing. I don't have staple tape but not sure if I really need it or not.

Thanks in advance!

jmlampert23 · June 9th, 2009

it is very difficult to mesh wood frames. if you use the melray frames they have a program where you can send back the old frames and they will put new mesh on the wood frames

jim.goodwin · June 9th, 2009

I had a bunch of wooden frames, and a special screen stretcher and no real experience with re-meshing frames. After figuring out exactly how to make it all work successfully, I realized that I had taken a ridiculous amount of time to make a bunch of screens that were marginal at best. After using some aluminum frames, I cannot see wasting my time with re-meshing. I truly believe that the money invested in the aluminum frames was one of the best decisions I made. I could understand if you want to library the screen for multiple runs, it really wouldn't make sense to use expensive frames on that, but the ones you use everyday and reclaim on a regular basis should be aluminum. The quality of professionally made, pre-streched aluminum screens is far beyond that of a self stretched wooden frame.

Just my 2 cents worth.

My experience with re-meshing was worthwile, but did not get me the results I wanted. It did however lead me to a decision that I wanted to stick with aluminum screens.

Good Luck and let us know how it goes for you.

Solmu · June 10th, 2009

My advice on re-meshing wood screens: don't.

Buy aluminium instead, and re-mesh those when they eventually need it. The price difference between wood and aluminium is negligible, and they're better to work with.

jmlampert23 · June 10th, 2009

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Originally Posted by Solmu


	My advice on re-meshing wood screens: don't. Buy aluminium instead, and re-mesh those when they eventually need it. The price difference between wood and aluminium is negligible, and they're better to work with.

i would never re-mesh my own wood or aluminum frames check out melray industries. all you do is send back your old frames and they re-mesh for you and send them back. only catch is you have to use their frames to begin with. but it costs about 13 bucks a frame to re-mesh including the freight to and from them.

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