Homemade screen stretching video

Oh my goodness, how cool is that. I love the way you showed clearly exactly what you were doing. Poor old Bob, I hope he wasn't hurt in his trampoline experiment. Thanks so muh for the vid. It is brilliant and congrats on your homemade stretcher.

Hi, thank you but it is not mine. I just found it on the YT.
I am going to make one though.
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it works. ive built and used this when in a jam. it will stretch so tight it will bend the eye hooks on the turn buckles lol.


cheaper to buy em from pocono for like $10

Cool- thanks for sharing this! I've been trying to think of a way to stretch my own screens. I've already thought of some modifications I could do on this design...

That video has been posted several times here in the last few years and yes it does work as I have tried it. I built mine on a table though and instead of a screw to test the tension I use a tension meter. I am a fan of the DIY so I try them all and this method does work.

veedub3 said:

That video has been posted several times here in the last few years and yes it does work as I have tried it. I built mine on a table though and instead of a screw to test the tension I use a tension meter. I am a fan of the DIY so I try them all and this method does work.

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Good to hear! I thought of building it on a table as well to avoid having to use weights.

hey veedub .... what kind of tension did you get? I dont have a meter and was wondering how this method stacked up.

The one i built from these plans got a few beefy up grades and pulls pretty tight. so tight the metal begins to bend. just wondering what it would say if i put a meter on it.

Should be a copy of [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y6TQAVwgPU&feature=PlayList&p=5C01D869D6255C5A&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=1[/media]
I have a metal version using my favorite DIY material - slotted angular bars. Disassembled it a few weeks back but will reassemble it soon and hopefully post it here. Cost me about Php2900 (slotted metals, bolts & nut, brackets, clamps) or about the same as a two 20"x24" aluminum frame (with 180-300mesh) from ryonet.

The 12 clamps is about half the cost. A bolt and wingnut through a wooden clamping system (that clamps the mesh) should cost significantly less

Does not need to weigh it down like the wooden version copy.