[mailman]

I thought of this when doing some small prints, I know something like it is available to purchase. Made it in less than five minutes,with some scrap but it works great. I am fairly new at screen printing, about a year part time. I always appreciate the help I get on the forum. I thought I would show this for any rookies like me who may not have not thought of it. It saves me a lot of reaching, and helps quite a bit with clean-up, just a small area to wash out ink. I hope this helps someone. I thought I would throw in a couple pictures of my basement shop, I keep my vinyl cutter and printers up stairs because of dampness. Under my press is my drying cabinet, to the left is my vacuum exposure unit I built with 400 watt metal halide, and to the left of that is my conveyor dryer. Sorry about the pictures being side way could not rotate for some reason. Mark

 

[gotshirts2ink]

Windows Photo Gallery on the bottom you can rotate
You need to show us more of the exposure unit? and tell us how to build it!!!

 

[cyclesurgeon]

Have you ever looked at a picture and had a "Duhhhh" moment, well you provided one for me tonight. Why didn't I think of something like that a year ago? Now to add a tweak or two of my own and add to an upcoming video...with your permission of course.

 

[gotshirts2ink]

cyclesurgeon A long time ago a buddy of mine made this now he lives off his website must be nice huh?

 

[foot print]

VERY COOL...i kept looking at it and it looks alot like a GIANT lobster gauge.

 

[cyclesurgeon]

cyclesurgeon A long time ago a buddy of mine made this now he lives off his website must be nice huh?

Well, there goes my tweak .

 

[ukracer]

Any chance of you showing us a quick video of the screen printing in action for those of us newer to it than you?? lol

 

[foot print]

Look up squeege bar on YouTube

 

[ScreenFoo]

Neat idea.


What I used to do is way less cool than that--I wrap scraps of 2x4 with paper and put them in the screen.

I quit doing it though, I found putting the squeegee in the middle of the screen just makes the head a more effective squeegee/ink catapult.

 

[mailman]

Well, glad I could help someone. Thanks for the rotation Michael. Mark