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Offline Maxie

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Rounding ends of squeegees?
« on: October 18, 2013, 03:34:27 PM »
I am about to replace my squeegee blades, I do not have a cutter for rounding the ends.
Is there an easy way to do this?     I thought of using a wood disk sander.
Will welcome any ideas? Thanks.
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Re: Rounding ends of squeegees?
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2013, 03:38:37 PM »
Should work well with a fine enough grit. We use a Dremel on the recommendation
of someone here.

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Re: Rounding ends of squeegees?
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2013, 03:50:23 PM »
we use the cinder block walls in the shop or the concrete outside!  takes about 10 seconds and its free.
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Re: Rounding ends of squeegees?
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2013, 04:19:35 PM »
Double Bevels need no rounding 8) 8) 8) 8)
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Re: Rounding ends of squeegees?
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2013, 04:58:18 PM »
The sidewalk is my weapon of choice.  Pretty much like cinder blocks--but we're in a building with a wood exterior.  ;)


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Re: Rounding ends of squeegees?
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2013, 05:31:03 PM »
Same here, block or some sandpaper glued on a pc of wood

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Re: Rounding ends of squeegees?
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2013, 06:33:43 PM »
$35 bench grinder. My guess is no HF in Israel though, but you probably have something similar. . .

http://www.harborfreight.com/bench-grinder-with-flex-shaft-43533.html

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Re: Rounding ends of squeegees?
« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2013, 10:41:40 AM »
Thanks for all the replies.     Pierre, I have a grinder, it worked really well.     Didn't think of that.
Thanks again.
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Re: Rounding ends of squeegees?
« Reply #8 on: December 29, 2013, 02:11:54 AM »
What is the benefit to rounding the edges? and how round sound they be? any pics for example?
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Re: Rounding ends of squeegees?
« Reply #9 on: December 29, 2013, 08:19:46 AM »
What is the benefit to rounding the edges? and how round sound they be? any pics for example?

The purpose of rounding the corners of the squeegee is to relieve stress on the stencil and screen mesh at the outside edge where the blade contacts the screen.  A small radius of 3/16" or 5.0mm is more than enough. There's some more information in the attached brochure from Serilor
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Re: Rounding ends of squeegees?
« Reply #10 on: December 30, 2013, 04:19:54 AM »
What is the benefit to rounding the edges? and how round sound they be? any pics for example?

The purpose of rounding the corners of the squeegee is to relieve stress on the stencil and screen mesh at the outside edge where the blade contacts the screen.  A small radius of 3/16" or 5.0mm is more than enough. There's some more information in the attached brochure from Serilor

I learnt it the hard way. I tore my new 305/31 mesh as I was scrapping ink out of it with a squeegee. After that I rounded all my squeegees.

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Re: Rounding ends of squeegees?
« Reply #11 on: December 30, 2013, 09:56:18 AM »
Thank you very much... I'm heading out to round the Sqeegees right now!!!!
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Re: Rounding ends of squeegees?
« Reply #12 on: December 30, 2013, 02:20:48 PM »
That HF grinder looks sweet, bonus dremel tool even.   

We have an "official" corner cutter but it actually kind of sucks and we still need to finish it off with some emery cloth.  The key is to make sure everyone doing the corner rounding is doing it exactly the same and the cutter does help with that.  Otherwise, you may wind up with a situation on a maximum width image.

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Re: Rounding ends of squeegees?
« Reply #13 on: January 03, 2014, 06:25:13 PM »
After rounding my sqeegees off I have noticed my prints turning out smoother than before. Thanks.
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