Will cold weather effect plastisol?

Store plastisol inks at room temperature.
Prolonged exposure to temperatures above 90 F (30 C) can cause the ink to start to cure while still in the container.
Prolonged exposure to cold temperatures can cause the ink to gel creating a "false body" and be difficult to work with.

Tj Ryonet Tech said:

Prolonged exposure to cold temperatures can cause the ink to gel creating a "false body" and be difficult to work with.

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That is quite an understatement. The only heat in the back of my shop is the dryer so those first few pulls of white on a cold day are real hand-crampers.

My experience so far is that the white thickens up no matter what the temp, lol. I can have a screen sit in my garage with black ink in it for two weeks and come back and it will still print just as easily as it did the first time.

For white I've taken to putting it back in the bucket and closing the lid when I'm done with it.

joeybstarr said:

That is quite an understatement. The only heat in the back of my shop is the dryer so those first few pulls of white on a cold day are real hand-crampers.

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If nothing else bring the ink inside the heated part of your house for storage. I've stored stuff in my house for years from my knifemaking shop in the winter to keep it from freezing. Not the best case scenerio but it's better than losing a bunch of materials to freezing cold.

Craig

Bring the ink indoors. Our warehouse gets HOT in the summer and ink doesn't gel, I'm sure your house isn't as hot as our warehouse if it is I feel for you.

Get a space heater.

We had our inks stored in our wharehouse area, and when it got down below 50 or so, I noticed the inks had a "harder hand" and required more stirring to break down the "hand" of the ink before placing in the screen.