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Thanks for the info I have decided to put the Jennings press up for sale and i bought a 6/4 workhorse mach.
I think every pretty much covered your original question. But, I"ll also add that the off contact on this press was designed to be set and left alone. I feel this is how all presses are. Some have presses have tool-less off contact adjustments, but ideally you want all your heads to have the same exact off contact and be level. I think the quickest way to adjust off contact is to shim the screen as previously mentioned. It only takes an extra second when loading your screen. I liked my Jennings a lot. I think the only 2 changes I would make to this press would be M&R style aluminum pallets (Roger is adamantly against aluminum pallets) and Vastex/Anatol/Antec style micros. I think you would then have the perfect manual press. The micros were the only thing I really didn't like when I had one.
Quote from: Shanarchy on February 12, 2015, 10:42:09 PMI think every pretty much covered your original question. But, I"ll also add that the off contact on this press was designed to be set and left alone. I feel this is how all presses are. Some have presses have tool-less off contact adjustments, but ideally you want all your heads to have the same exact off contact and be level. I think the quickest way to adjust off contact is to shim the screen as previously mentioned. It only takes an extra second when loading your screen. I liked my Jennings a lot. I think the only 2 changes I would make to this press would be M&R style aluminum pallets (Roger is adamantly against aluminum pallets) and Vastex/Anatol/Antec style micros. I think you would then have the perfect manual press. The micros were the only thing I really didn't like when I had one. The diagonal micros are a pain until you get the hang of it, and by the hang of it I mean get spot on registration on each screen before it touches the press so you don't have to use the micros lol
Ok so why when I put the paint stick in the chanel does it introduce pitch into the screen again
Quote from: steve1coelho on February 18, 2015, 10:36:58 PMOk so why when I put the paint stick in the chanel does it introduce pitch into the screen againThis is a back clamp machine yes? I believe you set the off contact for the back, and the paintstick (or whatever you use for shims) goes on the front end, and has to land on the plate; hence, you get the same off contact front to back, and it won't dip...Steve