"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
Alan do you know of a place around here that remeshes with Murakami's Smartmesh?
One thing I'll always add on restretching is do the math.More than once I have seen that restretching an old wooden screen (with no guarantee that it wouldn't warp or pull apart at a corner) plus two way shipping, is only marginally cheaper than buying new aluminum static screens either locally, or only shipped one way.You also need to find out their requirements on prepping your old frames.
You still have to factor in re-stretching the aluminum ones all the same... and they usually charge more for that (because I guess they can).
Quote from: Gilligan on September 26, 2011, 06:28:58 PMYou still have to factor in re-stretching the aluminum ones all the same... and they usually charge more for that (because I guess they can).No. what I have seen in the past was remeshing a wooden screen at about $15 plus $4 two way shipping (when a case of six was shipped.) while a new aluminum screen was about $21 with $1.50 shipping one way.These prices are probably way off now, but are representative of what I have seen over the years. Decent wood frames are heavy to ship, which I believe has added to aluminum frames coming down in price.
Quote from: Frog on September 26, 2011, 07:04:05 PMQuote from: Gilligan on September 26, 2011, 06:28:58 PMYou still have to factor in re-stretching the aluminum ones all the same... and they usually charge more for that (because I guess they can).No. what I have seen in the past was remeshing a wooden screen at about $15 plus $4 two way shipping (when a case of six was shipped.) while a new aluminum screen was about $21 with $1.50 shipping one way.These prices are probably way off now, but are representative of what I have seen over the years. Decent wood frames are heavy to ship, which I believe has added to aluminum frames coming down in price.Melray's site finally came back up (honestly not sure how long it was down but I noticed the tab was still opened just now so I tried it again.Wood and aluminum frames cost the same in shipping when you remesh with them.It's still expensive though! 18.93 to them and 22.72 from them for six 20x24's.I also have bought from "flyin Brian" on ebay... good deal, and he can make stuff happen even if it's not listed at the time.
Sonny, I appreciate your response, but what I have (noted in original thread) are crappy 18 x 20 o.d. frames. I think you assumed that was i.d. No worries. That coupled with the fact that I would not put any mesh below 156 (probably 230) makes the cost prohibited when shipping is added to it. Any screen additions in the future would be 20x24 o.d. or rollers (which I already have about 15). Hell, I even have about 5 aluminum (20x24) screens with torn mesh and when I called Graphic Solutions here local about remeshing those, they said for .50, I could get new. So much for trying to be efficient.