How do you dry your screens?

[TCT]

Gilligan- while we are pointing fingers, why don't you show us yours! Unless you have something to hide!

You are actually in luck, me and the boy are heading to the "man mall" now to walk around. I'll see if I can't find the attachment I was talking about.


Mimosa- that's a pretty bad as cabinet! Someone like DIY projects! I am with you in that.



We should have a DIY or a DIMS(did it my self) section on the board! Bet we could have all kinds of cool projects to waste our time on!

[Gilligan]

I just said I hadn't ordered it yet. :p

But I did right after that.

This is like what I'm getting... Ordered from Charlie's site though.

[Frog]

Okay Mimosa, get to work! We expect the plans here by the end of next week 

[TCT]

Ok, you guys are in luck! just picked up what I was talking about here are the pics Gilligan asked so nicely for-





Here is where I got it(on sale this week, it must be a sign!) I know this is kinda a midwest store, but you can buy online. There is also probably the same thing all over Amazon and other stores. If for some odd reason this is the only place in the universe to buy it and you are banned from buying online or something  , I would be happy to buy them and ship them out to people.

http://www.menards.com/main/tools-hardware/power-tools/wet-dry-vacuums/performax-1-7-8-floor-nozzle/p-1885898-c-10092.htm

[Inkworks]

Plain old window washing squeegee works just fine for us, gets 90% of the water off. Then dried in a horizontal rack with a fan under our light/block-out table. If we're in a real hurry we use compressed air after the squeegee and can be dry ready for block-out in ~3 minutes.  We had a ~$100 vacuum squeegee at an old shop, but with the hose and noise it was cumbersome and never got used as the guys preferred a simple window squeegee.

[Gilligan]

I want the vac attachment mainly for freshly reclaimed screens.  Squeegees don't do much and it isn't recommended to use the air hose on the clean screen.

Good job Alex... Just when everyone was saying you we're useless, you came in and proved me right! Good job!

[mimosatexas]

Okay Mimosa, get to work! We expect the plans here by the end of next week 

what am I building?   I need direction!

[Inkworks]

I want the vac attachment mainly for freshly reclaimed screens.  Squeegees don't do much and it isn't recommended to use the air hose on the clean screen.

Good job Alex... Just when everyone was saying you we're useless, you came in and proved me right! Good job!

You're in that much of a rush to coat? We occasionally get in a rush to get a screen shot and into production, but I guess we have enough screens in rotation that we're rarely in such a rush that we need to force-dry so we can coat them. We have a sealed cabinet with a fan drawing air out of it and a hepa filter on the intake vent for drying reclaimed or freshly coated screens. They can be ready to go in 2 hours for either operation.

[Rockers]

We using the following. Hooks up to our compressor. Screens are dry in no time.

[Frog]

I don't know about anyone else, but I was getting dizzy.

[ZooCity]

Rockers, where did you get that whole shebang? I want.  We use air too but the nozzle we have isn't ideal.

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[Binkspot]

They are air knifes you can get at an industral supply like Grainger, Mc Master, MSC, etc.

[Rockers]

Rockers, where did you get that whole shebang? I want.  We use air too but the nozzle we have isn't ideal.

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I`ve got mine from Amazon here in Japan, not sure if Amazon.com has them too.
But they should be easy to get hold of.

[Gilligan]

Yeah, you have brought those up in the past but didn't have them yet... Are they all they claim to be? Less air consumption, better coverage, all that?

[Sbrem]

I just said I hadn't ordered it yet. :p

But I did right after that.

This is like what I'm getting... Ordered from Charlie's site though.

We use a metal version of this that we've had for 15 years at least, then into the screen dryer. I used fans for years before we picked up the dryer at auction. I think someone had plans for making this vacuum head on the SPOF...

Steve