Author Topic: Our latest DIY project-a screen coating stand.  (Read 11152 times)

Offline Racer Tees

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Re: Our latest DIY project-a screen coating stand.
« Reply #30 on: April 11, 2015, 03:15:08 PM »
I am just curious, am I the only hammerhead coating screens one handed?
Started this way from day one...... it is quite easy or so it seems but I really do not know any different.
Glisten method with an 18" coater filled to the gunwales.
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I have thought the same thing! Here at work they kept asking for a stand/shelf, couldn't wrap my head around it! We made one and I can't coat a screen with 2 hands to save my life! ;D
I can't coat a screen with 1 hand to save my life!  Half of the emulsion ends up on the floor!


Offline Mr Tees!!

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Re: Our latest DIY project-a screen coating stand.
« Reply #31 on: April 11, 2015, 03:19:49 PM »
...tried it two-handed a few years ago....eff that junk!

... the first shop I worked in did a lot of larger-size flat stock, so I had to learn to handle a 3ft+ filled coater, with one hand, while holding a large roller frame with the other. Keeping that heavy thing level while coating was a bitch, and you HAD to start from the floor and coat up to about chest-high. And then spin the screen, one handed without tipping the coater, and repeating on the other side. It was a crash-course introduction to scrennprinting, for sure. Until I got used to it after a few weeks, my wrist and forearm hurt like a sumbitch!!
Thanks TSB gang!!

...Sean, Mr Tees!!!