What is the most DIY/jerry-rig/ghetto part of your production?

[Evo]

As I have shut down recently, but I am setting up new digs in the garage, I've had to improvise a few things.

Example: toss screens in the bed of my pickup, then go to the carwash to "wash the truck". (the kind with stalls and power washer wands) Truck bed instantly transformed into a reclaim booth!



Ok, it's confession time foir the rest of you...

All shops at one time or another (or presently) have a home-made contraption, or a setup or procedure that would make some people cringe. (or make the fire dept shut the place down...)

What is the most "ghetto" (for lack of a better term) part of your shop?

[Frog]

Using the second bathroom for wet work.

[Prosperi-Tees]

this should be hidden from public lol.

Having washout booth drain somewhere!

Having a king sized black sheet covering my screen rack

[3Deep]

wording is very important on how you say things, but the most least attractive place in my shop is my washout booth..could be alot better.

Darryl

[ebscreen]

Using a bathroom scale as a shipping scale. Works fine and is accurate, just sort of weird.

Luckily that's as bad as it gets around here anymore.

[Homer]

BACK IN THE DAY - waay, waay back....

Exposure unit consisted of a 4' tall wooden box, a 500 watt halogen work light, and the glass door from the front my house. . .
guess what, the fker was UV resistant so it took over an hour to expose a screen. . .oh and weights from my weight bench and
a cushion from a couch. . .crappy enough for ya?


we have since advanced. . . .thank jeebus.

[alan802]

My registration system is pretty funny looking.  It's not completed but I don't imagine it's going to look much more professional when I'm done with it.

[GraphicDisorder]

Our wash out room is kind of ghetto.  It's a second bath room, removed sink/toilet and installed a stainless steel wash out booth and a dip tank.  BOOM.

Our ink area also sucks a bit.

[Evo]

a stainless steel wash out booth and a dip tank

How is that even remotely ghetto?? THis is in a separated room from the rest of the shop? That sounds optimal.

[GraphicDisorder]

a stainless steel wash out booth and a dip tank

How is that even remotely ghetto?? THis is in a separated room from the rest of the shop? That sounds optimal.

The booth is really nice, the fact that your nearly standing on the hole in the floor for the shitter (seals off but still) makes it a bit ghetto.  The plumbing is also very much so a jerry rig, but hey it works.  LOL. 

[IntegrityShirts]

My exposure unit looks like a cobbled mess from the great depression.
No hot water in my building.
No heat (yet) in my building.
Dryer is hooked up with a 50' welding extension cord...that I unplug and run to the exposure unit when I need it.

I could go on lol

[ZooCity]

Used to expose screens in the sunlight with a sheet of thin glass, stopwatch and a black sheet.  With dual cure, diazo sensitized emulsion you can watch for the color change. 
I would expose at about the same time each day in the same general area then wash them all out in my bathtub with special plumbing I rigged up off the shower nozzle to wash screens with.  No screens on cloudy days for me though. 

But the worst was when I had a booth I built by setting a shower stall up on a frame and instead of backlights I had this goose neck lamp with a bug bulb just sticking right in the washout.  It was plugged to a gfci but I'm still not sure how/why it is I didn't get zapped in all that time.

Movin' on up again to a new space this month- about 2k sf, new 200a 3ph panel, separate washout/screen room, big ass dryer, big vac frame, room for two flatstock presses.  Looking forward to it and glad to be getting out of the 800sf I'm currently in.

[Denis Kolar]

I have built washout booth and a drying/storage cabinet.
Bot look pretty nice so I would not hesite to bring a customer in. Anyway, I do everything from my basement, and I do not think that they expect everything to be top line

[GraphicDisorder]

Dryer is hooked up with a 50' welding extension cord...that I unplug and run to the exposure unit when I need it.

I could go on lol

Forgot about that, lol I have a 50' one I use to run my 24 screen drying cabinet and it also has to be used for my 24" flash.  Walking that cord around kinda often...haha.

[Screened Gear]

 I try to upgrade anything that is ghetto as soon as I have the money. My worse things right now are:

Exposure units gas shocks went out so I have to hold the top up with my head as I lay the screens in and take them out. (static shocked on the head every time)

I haven't got a screen rack for my auto screens yet. I keep thinking I am going to build one. So I just use PVC elbows that I had laying around to stack them on top of each other in the dark room. Works fine does take a little more time.