I'll put some more pics up when we get the crates broke down. Right now we are so busy, and waiting on the power to get done. We are having to have our service upgraded from single to 400 amp 3phase so I think we should keep it all wrapped up and protected until the electrical contractor is done. I just got 2 big 48" wall mount exhaust fans in today too to add to the "one" we have now lol. This heat has been bad, these two add in fans should move a ton more air through the shop. If I owned the building I would have had them put in the roof but the landlord wants zero roof penetrations. I have a feeling with the mechanical guy comes Monday to cut the walls and install these he's going to make a mess too, so another reason to keep all the crates bagged up for now.
Homer the "story". Well as embarrassing as it is to tell, nobody is perfect especially myself. I was having one of those days, tons of production to do, lot's of multi color set ups. A couple new people being trained so a million questions and talking come at me, phone, deliveries all stacked so my head was somewhere other than focused. Did I mention I'm seriously adhd. I had pulled a screen out, slipped in the next screen using the same squeegee floodbar set up, set the screen with the ink across two pallets in the load area. Got called away for some reason, had someone yappin at me and walked over to the other side of the press to pop in another screen, forgot I had the newman frame back there, an M3UL still straddling. Freewheeled over to triclok the other screen in and thats when now there is a newman frame jammed in head 1 between the pallet and the frame holders of the press. When hearing the loud noise and trying to table down the press, the newman frame actually held the tables in the up position with no way to get it down now. Screen holders were bowing up a little big from the newman crammed up on another newman and the holders. Well the only thing we could do was yank on the crammed frame and kaaaaaablaaaaaaaaaaammmmmm. It all came crashing down, my heart came out of my eye socket and everyone about crapped themselves. Now to say M&R builds heavy duty gear to is to just understate. The newmans were fine, still square, no rip, "I have no idea how that happened", and the frame holders unbowed on their own. I put a level on them they were true, got under the press and made sure the crash didn't break or crack anything. Not a dent or chip or nothing. This happened a few years ago, press still runs like new, never a reg issue or nothing. I know for a fact looking at how other companies make their frame holders that several other brands would have broke. Hopefully nobody pulls a bone head move like this, but things happen and that put the quality of M&R's engineering and steel to the test lol. I told this to Rich a couple months ago, and I never imagined I'd ever see him laugh at something so hard. I think he got a little satisfaction out of also knowing that their lowest end press is still built like a tank and truly field tested lol.
