Wash out booth waste water filtering.

[screenprintguy]

Danny, what system do you use?

[Nation03]

For those of you not filtering, are you getting clogs in your sinks? Right now our filtration system is broken and the waste water is clogging up our utility sink like no tomorrow. Even a couple of wire mesh screens and some filtration media is better than nothing.

[TCT]

What is clogging it? We have had our reclaim sink in b the same place with the same plumbing for probably 6 years. It has been "slow" draining maybe 3 times, but 5sec of shooting the power washer down the drain takes care of it.... We use a dip tank, would that make any difference?

[tonypep]

That dip tank water has to go somewhere eventually. And yes our drain water had been tested in the past but after several years of passing, it stopped.

[jvanick]

Anybody know exactly what sumps they use in these filtration units?

everything else looks to be standard parts you can pick up at your local home depot

(pair of canister filters, I'm guessing the first one is a 50micron mesh, the 2nd is probably a 5 micron)

the intital filtration could be done first with a piece of screen mesh, followed by a piece of scotchbrite pad.

after looking at the 'cheapy' one on ebay, it certainly doesn't look difficult to build one yourself.

Might be a new weekend project for me here.

[tonypep]

It's important to know if your septic is organic or not BTW.

[jvanick]

Tony, do you mean your chemicals are organic or not?

we use 701 as our ink degradent/dehaze/final cleaning step after the diptank

and then Xenon Degreaser for degrease.

I believe both of them are listed as biodegradable.

[cleveprint]

question about biodegradable. if a lot of us print plastisol... how is it biodegradable? isnt it plastic by definition? i know most of the ink cleaners degrade it, but essentially its still plastic and plastic takes a long long time to biodegrade, right? i always wondered how dumping it into the drain is legal...

[tonypep]

Sensitive but important topic here. Sorry too busy to reply in length but as an example, companies like CCI make chemistry designed to work in conjunction with your septic system.

[Parker 1]

This is what we use.  Cleaned weekly and or every 350 screens.  Sorry for the bad pic.

[tonypep]

Tencarva 25 locations in SE

[screenprintguy]

This is what we use.  Cleaned weekly and or every 350 screens.  Sorry for the bad pic.

Great post Chris!!!! How does the water look coming out of this unit? Do you think a 1 or 2 stage waterfilter like on some of the other units after this one would give even cleaner water, or do you think that is overkill?

Cleveprint, I totally get you, we are all at the mercy of the chem companies telling us that their product truely turns plastisol inks into a non toxic biodegradable liquid. So far, the one that has the best , "true" full breakdown of plastisol to a drain safe eco verified flushable liquid is beeniedoo, but I was just told about an even better product being launched in a few weeks that has a better price point and is even more eco friendly than beenie. I guess the whole point of this thread is to bring up and share cleaning ideas for all of us to do better all around. No one is barking at anyone if anyone took it that way, more to exchange ideas between each other on processes that are affordable and actually working well. I like this unit that Parker posted. I'm going to look into it.

Chris, do you guys drain into a tank with a sump pump, and then pump the water through this device?

Thanks man!

Mike

[Gilligan]

Have you looked at moose man's settling tank?  That is what we do.  You could run a filter after that if you wanted as well.

[screenprintguy]

is that the rock/sand tank?

[Gilligan]

is that the rock/sand tank?

Nope, just a tank... inlet goes down into the bottom and then flows out from high on the side... solids settle to the bottom... you can filter the rest if you want.