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screen printing => Equipment => DIY - From master engineered marvels to cobbled together jury-rigged or Jerry-built junk! => Topic started by: kingscreen on January 05, 2015, 05:01:56 PM
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Here's a cheap build I did over the weekend. Total build time: ~45 min. Total build cost: $23.50
This is made from 1 1/2" PVC. and a stainless steel sink strainer. The three holes drilled through the vertical pipe at the top helps ease off the vacuum.
Works great!
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wow this is very cool!
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Excellent! I might be inclined to put 2 or 3 layers of a 110 mesh or the like over the mesh screen to support more delicate fabrics, but I'll be shamelessly copying that in the next month or two.
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Great idea, and nice work. Got one question is that going into a shop-vac, and well two questions, is there any special filter in the shop-vac
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I was wondering as well were the fluid is going to end up in? The shop vac?
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The fluid evaporates before it even makes it to the shop vac. I have a similar setup and thought I could collect the used fluid and reuse it but there is never anything in there. Just don't use a flammable fluid.
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We have some of these but accelerate the evaporation with an air gun @60 PSI
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BRILLIANT!
mooseman
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No special filter. It's just a basic cheap wet/dry shop vac. As Binkspot said, the fluid evaporates before it even reaches the shop vac. Three 90-degree turns and a 36" vertical pipe almost guarantee it. Plus the height makes it comfortable to use while standing. Unfortunately, we had a situation that gave us the opportunity to test it out on about 80+ tees yesterday. >:( At the end, I pulled out the shop vac hose from the bottom and it was dry.
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what non-flammable fluid are you guys using?
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Been using CCI SR.-97 in mine for the past four years and haven blown anything up yet. Just makes toxic chemicals when comes in contact with flame, heated element or sparks.
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TS-3 is non-flammable. Been doing it this way for 20 ys here. Dry-vac exhausts next to fan and draws any vapors out immediately. And again the air hose is a good idea. Prevents rings as well
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I would recommend a piece of old screen mesh over the stainless mesh, less likely to punch a hole in a thin shirt this way
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That's how ours are fitted
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Xenon Spotbuster is a great spot fluid. Alcohol carrier makes it evaporate almost instantly.
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We use Xenon spotbuster now, and I will give it two thumbs up very good product does not leave rings as some other brands we've used... thanks Sonny 8)
darryl
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We use Xenon spotbuster now, and I will give it two thumbs up very good product does not leave rings as some other brands we've used... thanks Sonny 8)
darryl
You are most welcome. A happy New Year to you and yours!
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**Update: 110 mesh added over the stainless mesh.
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Xenon Spotbuster is a great spot fluid. Alcohol carrier makes it evaporate almost instantly.
Isn't alcohol flammable? :o
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wow.. that's pretty cool! The small area dries it super quick I bet.