I don't get it...Automatic rotary screen printing flash dryer

[IntegrityShirts]

Trying to think of a scenario where this would be a good idea...nope I got nothin!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SALE-Automatic-Rotary-Flash-Dryer-Silk-Screen-Printing-T-shirt-Ink-Cure-Conveyor-/231002308704?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35c8cf8060

[Prosperi-Tees]

I would say they need a lesson in English. I like the part where it says "dont worry" and then below "no returns or refunds"

[inkman996]

1) We have 2 sets of Used Auto Rotary Flash Dryer for sale.
2) Its nine into new, can be work well, please don’t worry.
3) One year warranty.
4) Not return and no refund after checked and bought.
 

Thats all I needed to read.

[Mr Tees!!]

...Looks to me like something branded as Blue Dragon (IE the arachnid), but two things here dont match up:

   A) the shade of blue isnt nearly close enough to M&R.
   B) the warranty/return-refund policy is STILL better.

 

[sweetts]

Might be good to keep your pizza warm at parties


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[Sbrem]

"What the hell is that thing?" And, it's used! For what? (note the dent in the plate)

Steve

[3Deep]

If I think long and hard I might could find a use for it

Darryl

[Screened Gear]

if you don't have a convayor dryer people use something like this to cure their shirts. Vastex even made somthing like this with 2 "pallets". I keeps you from burning up the pallets on your press. Stupid idea and anyone paying for something like this needs to look for a used small conveyor dryer. I see them all the time for less than $1500. 

[mk162]

crud, I sold a dryer for $500.  You can get an older model cheap.  a lot of those are very simple as well.

[tpitman]

I see plans for homemade "poor-man's conveyor dryers" on ebay like this.

From the looks of the frame, I think it's one of those Chinese things by the company that sells the 6-color presses for $1200 or so out of Canada.

[sweetts]

I got mine for $500


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[hboothe]

I'm a noob and all but the first use I see would be, as one poster suggested, to do a final cure on a shirt (I'm thinking of plastisol).

Even as a noob, I think I know enough to know that real printers don't rely on flash-cure units to do final cures.  Soooo...

What I'd use this for...if I were going to buy the darned thing at all (which I'm not) is in this rudimentary scenario (which is, sadly, where I am):

You have a screen press for one color and one shirt and you're using something for the final cure which is a PITA (like my kitchen oven...yes, Sanford and Son, thank you, I'm just starting and mostly doing this as a hobby).  You need to print both the front and the back of the shirt, one color each side, so no need to worry about registration.

You could: print a number of shirts, the first side, pull them off and put them on this flash dryer to sorta set the ink.  Wham, bam.  Then take the flashed, single-sided shirts and put them back on the press for the opposite side (no registration worries) with the press setup for the design for that side and print.  Run it across something like this again to set the ink on that side and then, when you're done with your 10 or 20 or 8 or whatever shirts, front and back, you could then load them one by one into your PITA final-cure dryer (like my kitchen oven) and not have to worry about the ink transferring/smudging/oozing out the plasticizer.

Honestly, it sounds a bit like a Rube Goldburg way of going about things...but you asked if anybody could see a use for it: I can.  Cost/benefits?  Not seeing that.  Floor-space/benefits?  Not seeing that at all.

--HC

[tpitman]

When I first started, I had a contraption that would hold a printed shirt under my flash to cure the print while I printed the next one. I (think) it was called an ironing board. 
Not only did it work, I didn't pay anything for it. My daughter abandoned it when she moved to San Francisco.

[Homer]

and the worst part is -there are 6 bids on the damn thing! but then again, people did buy a pet rock so i suppose a good salesman can sell just about anything....hell, bottled water is big business 

[StuJohnston]

I agree with tpitman, all you need is a flat surface. Just in case this get's lost in my other wordy post, don't use you oven if you intend to eat anything cooked in it. A flash dryer works just as well and won't poison your food unless you cook with it for some reason.