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Offline Brad

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Greetings from a newbie.
« on: June 18, 2014, 03:42:03 PM »
Hi all!
I'm Brad Cress and we've bought a small shop that the owners retired. I'm totally new to the industry. I've spent the past 27+ years doing custom picture framing and retail camera sales.
We're actually a division of a large wholesale distributor that wanted to try a small retail side.
My wife is the at director at a large corporation here in Terre Haute, IN. She has both a graphic art and fine art degree. She's keeping her day job! LOL 
I will be reading a lot as I learn.
We have some very nice equipment as the previous owners were "particular". Now learning the process.
Thanks in advance for your help
Brad
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Offline Frog

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Re: Greetings from a newbie.
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2014, 03:50:06 PM »
Welcome Brad

I bet that a list of the weapons in your arsenal would prove interesting as well as helpful as your questions start coming.
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Re: Greetings from a newbie.
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2014, 04:19:12 PM »
Welcome Brad; if you've done any lurking, you know this is great crowd, very helpful and friendly. Let's not leave out funny too...

Steve
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Re: Greetings from a newbie.
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2014, 06:25:36 PM »
welcome aBOARD!

as Frog said, list the equipment you have, it should make it a lot easier to get ppl chime in with suggestions.

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Re: Greetings from a newbie.
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2014, 06:58:30 PM »
Welcome Brad!
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Offline GKitson

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Re: Greetings from a newbie.
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2014, 07:07:08 PM »
Brad, welcome.  If you are interested in a field trip to our shop in Decatur, IN to talk about what we both do the invite is always there.

Greg Kitson
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Offline screenprintguy

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Re: Greetings from a newbie.
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2014, 09:32:40 PM »
Welcome aboard Brad!
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Offline Doug B

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Re: Greetings from a newbie.
« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2014, 08:01:29 AM »
 Welcome. I was born in T.H., Lived mosttly in Indy before I changed climate. (Jacksonville, FL).
Went to I.S.U. the same time as Larry Bird. Been in the industry 45 years. When I make it back to
see family, I would like to stop by.
 -Doug
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Offline Dottonedan

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Re: Greetings from a newbie.
« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2014, 10:04:36 PM »
Grab a chair and a coffee Sat morning and read all day. Plenty of good food here.

Welcome!
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Offline brandon

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Re: Greetings from a newbie.
« Reply #9 on: June 19, 2014, 11:09:18 PM »
Dive in Brad! Lots of info here worth the read. Always something to learn!
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Offline Brad

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Re: Greetings from a newbie.
« Reply #10 on: June 23, 2014, 10:48:51 AM »
Thanks everyone for the welcome. Since everything is in storage right now it took me awhile to inventory it. So without further ado here's list of weapons:
MR Chameleon 4 station / 6 color press
Atlas #824D belt dryer
another 24" by 8" belt dryer
unknown brand exposure vacuum unit (glass is about 30 x 36)
16 x 20 Hotronix swing away press
4 color CAPS hat press w/flash
16 x 16 Atlas flash unit
HC-218 Blackflash unit (BF4-50005)
a mug Thermal Transfer Press
a Quick set cap heat press
1.5hp , 30 gallon Sanborn air compressr
well over 250+ screens of various mesh (mostly aluminum)
and of course all the other assorted platens, jacket clamps, etc.........
So we've got a big arsenal. Now we have to get ti set up and running.
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