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Old August 29th, 2009 Aug 29, 2009 6:38:12 AM -   #1 (permalink)
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I built my own press for screen printing and it has a wooden table that I put my shirt on. After I ink my shirt and go to pull up my screen off my shirt the shirt wants to come up with my screen. Then my registration is all messed up. With a wooden table is there anything I can buy...some sort of adhesive for the wood to keep the shirt down?
 
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Yeah you need spray adhesive. But if you are just laying the shirt on the table then spary adhesive will not help, because it will hold the bottom layer of the shirt down, but the print layer will still be able to slide. You need to make your table so that you can slide the back of the shirt under the table and the front of the shirt on the top of the table. Then with adhesive it will hold it down.
 
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I have the right kind of table with only the print side of the t-shirt on the table. What adhesive do I have to buy for the shirt to hold to wood?
 
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for now just grab some elmyrs spray adhesive or some thing like it from a hardware/craft store..
spray it on and give it about a minit before you put your shirt on it and should be goo for a dozen or so prints.
you can buy spray adhesive from your supplier probrbly, made fortshirt printing..i just use what i find in my town.
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the adhesive should say "removable", on the can somewhere.
 
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.....and so you don't have to replace the wood. Use tape over the wood first. When the glue gets to thick, peel it off replace.
 
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.....and so you don't have to replace the wood. Use tape over the wood first. When the glue gets to thick, peel it off replace.
Yeah that is a good idea...also I like the liquid adhesive, because the spray is some nasty stuff.
 
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Default Re: T-shirt keeps lifting with my screen?

How course is the wood pallet, is it lackered with a smooth, flat finish or just wood grain? If the pallet isn't finished with some type of sealant or something similar then it might not be possible to hold the shirt down properly with any type of adhesive. If it isn't really smooth get your sander out and make it as smooth as possible and get some pallet tape/vinyl applicator tape and put down over the pallet and cut it to shape the pallet. Then whatever type of adhesive you can get ahold of will likely work. I recommend a water-based liquid adhesive.
 
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