Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
This mesh busting thing is a problem at our shop, well I think it is. We bust at least one a week, and probably 60 total last year and I've tried a lot of things. I've yelled, I've thrown things across the shop, I've been super nice, I've been indifferent, humiliating, compassionate, you name it and nothing has worked. I almost lost a good press operator over one of my tyraids and things are still the same. I wish I could say it was all the thin thread mesh but the regular thread and newman mesh busts just as often as the Murakami so I don't know what to do. I'm convinced it's employee mishandling that does it, but nothing I do is working to fix the problem.
I have problems with alignment clips when I remesh 305. If I am not too careful with inserting them or sliding the locking strip, the clip would put micro cuts into the threads.
^^ +1 Definitely. I have a few telltale holes (in lines) from floodbars being setup while the press is on contact registering, as well as a few screens with 'crap in the ink' scratches.That's one of the things that stinks about any of those tapes though, you can start a hole under the tape that you can't see, and it might hold for a day, or it might hold a month. Makes it hard to track down where the problem was.Alan: Pretty rough if S threads AND newman mesh is busting at a similar rate. Are they still mostly splits near the channels?
"This highly tensioned screen is actually a shallow pan made of thin glass..." It helps.