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Offline Rockers

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How many different sizes of squeegees/flood bars you got for your auto?
« on: August 04, 2012, 10:33:19 PM »
So far we have only the 16" set that came with the press? I assume a shorter set for left breast and sleeve prints would be a good thing to invest in.
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Re: How many different sizes of squeegees/flood bars you got for your auto?
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2012, 12:31:00 AM »
We have 12pcs. 16" floodbars and squeegees holders, but 4 of the holders have 6" squeegees in them. I'll be cutting two of the floodbars in half soon too, since full sized floodbars suck with little squeegees. We recently bought 4 winged floodbars so we have extra of the stock ones anyways.
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Re: How many different sizes of squeegees/flood bars you got for your auto?
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2012, 12:44:07 AM »
Got 8 16in floodbars and 10 16in squeegees. 
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Re: How many different sizes of squeegees/flood bars you got for your auto?
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2012, 11:56:11 AM »
We have 10 16" floodbars, 10 16" squeegees, 4 18" floodbars and 4 18" squeegees. 
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Re: How many different sizes of squeegees/flood bars you got for your auto?
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2012, 10:01:34 PM »
15 squeegees and fb's, all 16".  I guess you can get shorter ones for the left chest prints if you really want to, but it's totally unnecessary. 
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Re: How many different sizes of squeegees/flood bars you got for your auto?
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2012, 10:54:17 PM »
something in the range of 100.. range in size from 2" to 48"
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Re: How many different sizes of squeegees/flood bars you got for your auto?
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2012, 10:48:19 AM »
everything is 16" for normal printing. Have one oversized set at 22".

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Re: How many different sizes of squeegees/flood bars you got for your auto?
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2012, 10:56:17 AM »
Mostly 16". More importantly though, we have multiple sets per press so we don't have to waste time waiting while used ones are cleaned.
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Re: How many different sizes of squeegees/flood bars you got for your auto?
« Reply #8 on: August 06, 2012, 12:40:40 PM »
One set of 14", two of 16" and one of 20".



Alan mentioned using a shorter squeegee on left chest prints. Don't do it!
I tried it on my old American and you can never get the pressure even across the blade.
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Re: How many different sizes of squeegees/flood bars you got for your auto?
« Reply #9 on: August 06, 2012, 03:07:34 PM »
Not on your MHM...  ;)

I use a short offset blade for polos, works great on the Gauntlet.

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Re: How many different sizes of squeegees/flood bars you got for your auto?
« Reply #10 on: August 06, 2012, 03:10:55 PM »
I only use a short blade on polos but only on ones that have big thick buttons that can wear a hole in the mesh or cause regi issues.
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Re: How many different sizes of squeegees/flood bars you got for your auto?
« Reply #11 on: August 06, 2012, 04:00:25 PM »
Not possible on MHM's.


You guys don't have issues with even pressure using an offset squeegee?

We use sleeve pallets on polo's, easy to load/align.
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Re: How many different sizes of squeegees/flood bars you got for your auto?
« Reply #12 on: August 15, 2012, 07:56:13 PM »
We have 2 sets. One on, one to wash or pre. One wing set floods, one regular set.
Bunch of squeegee rubber, but 70 is the standard.
Enough for now.
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Re: How many different sizes of squeegees/flood bars you got for your auto?
« Reply #13 on: August 16, 2012, 06:40:43 AM »
4", 6", 10", 14" 16" and 18"
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Re: How many different sizes of squeegees/flood bars you got for your auto?
« Reply #14 on: August 16, 2012, 08:18:26 AM »
16" set with extra winged flood bars
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