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DIY Belt Dryer
mk162:
--- Quote from: im_mcguire on August 01, 2018, 01:27:39 PM ---I feel if you dont have the budget for a dryer, Id just keep trucking along and cure them with your flash dryer. I did that for almost 18 months when I first started out.
Is it the best practice? No! But save enough until you can find a second hand dryer, or better yet, a new dryer in your budget.
Youll spend more time posting on forums, and trying to figure out how to get it done, rather than printing the shirts and making money to reinvest into your printing.
A dryer is a key element in maintaining some form of production, and proper cure on your garments. Get it when you can afford a decent one. And if you have more work than you can produce for your shop, farm the work out. Hell ive even heard of people taking their flash cured shirts to bigger shops to run their shirts through the dryer, to get a final proper cure.
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Your other option is to farm out the bigger jobs where a lack of a dryer would slow you down, pocket the profit and buy one then.
Frog:
--- Quote from: BartJY on August 01, 2018, 01:18:10 PM ---I appreciate the responses. But I fear that even a second hand belt dryer will be outside of my budget. That is why I hope to build my own. Wishful thinking? Maybe.
Thanks
Bart
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Let's get specific. How much are you able or willing to spend?
BartJY:
I was hoping to spend 2 or 3 hundred to make a DIY belt dryer.
I suppose if push comes to shove, I could afford about $1400.00 for a used belt dryer.
Bart
Frog:
--- Quote from: BartJY on August 01, 2018, 04:41:57 PM ---I was hoping to spend 2 or 3 hundred to make a DIY belt dryer.
I suppose if push comes to shove, I could afford about $1400.00 for a used belt dryer.
Bart
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With luck, you'll find an old one for far less than $1400
Are you in a large city area? Do you look on Craigslist every day?
xcelr8hard:
Make sure you have the power necessary to power a belt dryer before you purchase one.
I assume you are working out of your house. It doesn't take much to eat up the available amps you may have.
Butch
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