3-Panel Economax paired with small automatic

[gotshirtz001]

Hey all,
Anybody here running an Economax dryer with their small automatic?
Would like to know some real statistics regarding hourly production capacity.
Looking at getting a Diamondback 8/7 and I'd like to be in the ~250 shirts per hour range.
Will be set up as a one-man op.

Thanks

[balloonguy]

I have an old diamondback and econred II (vastex) 2 panel dryer. We can easily run 250 per hour. It takes some dialing in but we can run much closer to 400 on shirts. We are much slower with hoodies and some specialty items but I am pretty sure that the real down there is me, not the dryer. I load and unload. I really like to have someone at the end of the dryer to catch/stack and help me with quality control.

[Nation03]

I have an older 2 panel Economax as a backup. Manually I was doing 150/hr on simple prints. I'm sure a 3 panel can squeeze 250/hr. My main dryer is a Ranar Cure Star 6000. Depending on print size I can do about 240/300 per hour.

[Sbrem]

It should work, you'd just have to live with whatever it can do. We have a one panel that we used to use for numbering, and I think with 3 panels you could approach 200 - 250. When we bought our first auto, we went to see one in operation first, and they were using an 8' dryer with a 24" belt, which made no sense to me at all, (it was totally full) but I guess they were making some money for a deposit on a larger dryer.

Steve

[3Deep]

My space does not allow for us to get a real nice big dryer, and I really don't like the Vastex dryers which I know alot of people are making money with, but I'd love to have a 8 ft 36 wide dryer, would be very nice to be able to move the heating elements chamber to a certain position for in and out as you need it.

[gotshirtz001]

Thanks for the responses! I'm sure it will work out fine

[prozyan]

I use a 3 panel economax with my Diamondback.  We can produce 500/hour without any problems.

[gotshirtz001]

Perfect. Now, if I could just find an infeed extension!

[Frog]

I don't know how the Economax is constructed, but on my old American, the in-feed and out-feed rails merely bolt on. I got my dryer used, and the previous owner had extended the in-feed with 24" of steel channel extension between the chamber and in-feed rails.

[prozyan]

I don't know how the Economax is constructed, but on my old American, the in-feed and out-feed rails merely bolt on. I got my dryer used, and the previous owner had extended the in-feed with 24" of steel channel extension between the chamber and in-feed rails.

Correct.  An extension would be extremely easy to put on.

[gotshirtz001]

Yup... Which is why I am so confused that M&R does not sell it.
I called and they said it had to be ordered at the time originally purchased.
I had a Workhorse conveyor and the infeed extension was just a bolt-in piece with a section of belt to place in between the ends of the original.

I can fabricate it but it's worth it to me to just find the factory setup if possible.
It's not crucial right now... just a nice-to-have

[gotshirtz001]

And @Frog, maybe when I'm in the East Bay or you're in the North Bay, we find some beer