screen printing > DIY - From master engineered marvels to cobbled together jury-rigged or Jerry-built junk!

My homemade shop stuff.

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Appstro:
Is the cabinet home made? Is that sealed enough to keep light out? I need something smaller and would prefer NOT to have to build one, but it looks like I might have to.

Frog:
Ya know, for the utmost in economy and ease (or lack) of build, I remember when I stored my coated screens in the boxes in which they came.
I draped a towel over the closed flaps to ensure light safety.

Gilligan:

--- Quote from: Frog on January 05, 2014, 02:15:03 AM ---Ya know, for the utmost in economy and ease (or lack) of build, I remember when I stored my coated screens in the boxes in which they came.
I draped a towel over the closed flaps to ensure light safety.

--- End quote ---

That's how I started, then "upgraded" to the bottom of a tarp draped work cart.

Very glad to have built my cabinet with the help of a friend (he did 95% of the work and math).

Inkworks:

--- Quote from: Frog on January 05, 2014, 02:15:03 AM ---Ya know, for the utmost in economy and ease (or lack) of build, I remember when I stored my coated screens in the boxes in which they came.
I draped a towel over the closed flaps to ensure light safety.

--- End quote ---

I stored coared screens in doubled up black garbage bags for almost a year. ;D

Yes we built it all ourselves and the big cabinet is light-fast,even with the 8000 watt Olec on in the same room.

Inkworks:
Homebrew washout tank.

Big old poly storage tub for a basin plumbed with a drain, the HDPE matts you get to go under office chairs for on on carpet as a transparent/backlit back splash, some 2 x 4's, a garden hose and nozzle for developing screens, 4 bulb fluorescent fixture behind for back-light, wired with 2 light switches, 1 for the back-light and one for a switched outlet the power washer plugs into, and the whole unit plugs into a GFCI outlet so it's safe around all the water. It's never tripped the GFCI yet. And good ventilation to get rid of humidity and de-haze fumes!

I bet aside from the power washer it cost me under $100 and ~6 hours total investment.

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