We do it, because Rich Hoffman told us it was better for them to not chop at full pressure without the squeegee in there. The floods chop, but not with nearly as much pressure. Don't know, been doing it like that now for the past 6 years with it. You are correct in taking precaution on certain adjustments, but once anyone gets the gist of what it's doing, some simple adjustments of floodbar depth, having proper off contact, like you said, tape the inside of your frames to have take where the squeegee chops down at the front,"good idea to do that anyway, especially for longer runs", you should really have no problems. I'd rather it not have this happening on ours either, but it is what it is, and it's why we were able to get a 9 color machine for just under 30k at the time. All in all, still a rock solid press that can make any shop some serious coin. We plan to keep ours since everyone here knows how to rock out on it and add something bigger, faster and more sophisticated within the next year. I wish there was a valve kit that we could install to change the all heads chop, maybe there is. Will have to see if Rich chimes in on this thread. One thing we do is if we are running revolver, and a particular head is off on second revolution ect, make sure that head has a different depth adjustment to keep the squeegee far away from the image so on that rev it's not just chopping down on the design. It's adjustments like that I'd rather not have to do, but it's become second nature now with 6 years on this press.
