Currently pressing 2 or 3 hours a day, imprinting 60-100 garments for our store.
Here is what it looks like:
Go over to the boxes, open box, select items.
Pick up each item, tear off plastic if that is how they are packed, throw plastic in garbage, unfold, make a stack next to press.
Leaf through my transfers.
Select a transfer, try one, try two.
Make a stack of the chosen transfers close to the press.
Press each item in the stack, then move it to a clean flat surface a few feet away.
Bundle, dump into bucket, put bucket into golf cart, drive 4 blocks to store.
Unload, unstack, tag and price and hang each item.
Yes, it requires quite a bit of pressure on our old manual machine. I limit my time because otherwise my shoulders hurt.
No chance at all to develop carpal tunnel because of the range of motion in all these different chores.
IF you are only doing a
few hours at a time. Can't imagine doing it for 8 hours!
Wrist band are NOT a good idea, in my opinion. Allow your muscles to get stronger, and to enjoy their full range of motion.
Do not "support" them with wrist bands, because that just limits range of motion and they get weaker! (Wow, does that apply to children, too?
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On the other hand, my brother just came upstairs with a bad back ache - he is 3 inches taller than me, and pressed for just an hour yesterday.
I sure don't like the idea of going up and down a step so many times, but.... probably we will have to do just that.
OR- maybe next we will see if we can afford 2 machines, set at different heights.
