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Best way for a girl to pull/push a squeegee?

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Sbrem:
our production manager is 5"2", 110 lbs., and prints like a champ. She pulls the squeegee. I've mentioned alternative print strokes to her, but she prefers to pull. I've met a number of folks who push, either a traditional push, or the Bill Hood preferred method. I don't really think being a girl has anything to do with it... just find one that you're comfortable with.

Steve

mk162:
Heck, I've seen a lot of guys that can't master a manual print.  To be honest, I don't worry about push or pull since the auto handles that for me.

But, either stroke works fine, it's a matter of using those muscles and getting them worked into shape.  Speaking of which, I have tennis elbow right now.  I could barely use my arm yesterday.

StuJohnston:
According to the infalible Roger Jennings, women make the best manual screen printers because they don't try to 'manhandle' the squeegee. Even though I don't have much experience with getting shorter people to print on my relatively high press, getting something for her to stand on was my first thought as well.

mk162:
for our shorter printers, we would put some anit-fatigue mats on wood pallets and that works great.

Frog:
You beat me to it. Most larger shops have pallets kicking around, or are happy to donate.

Remember also Gilligan, that with plastisol, in general, we are only shearing the ink of after the flood (or fill, or load stroke), and it is the screen itself that is depositing it.
Tight screens, minimal off-contact, pushing, and a little practice should do the trick.

Hopefully you do realize that even with a push stroke, the squeegee is held at the same angle and position and not reversed. Now, it's merely the trailing edge doing the work.

btw, I had to unthink decades of pulling as my method, but it only took a week or two to become a convert.

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