Farking ink....

[Wildcard]

I'll see your ink knife stuck in the screen with no damage, and raise you..

a 12 color challenger, 8 color print.. freshly glued boards for a long run.. nice and warm and the operator hit print.. rather than print start.. thanks to even spacing all 8 print heads did their thing... the carousel hung there for about 2 seconds, we had 45n tension screens in there.. when it let go.. the screens that didn't break, acted like a trampoline..


Last I heard.. 15 years later ink is still on the ceiling.

Epic story jsheridan! There should be more of these these to make me feel better about my small scale dramas.
I did a job on some reversible poly mesh singlets that needed a solid triple coat of water based table tack to stay down. While setting up the following job i raised the boards while a couple of screens were down... the sound of the screens releasing from the ultra sticky pallets/platens was like a bomb going off.

[bimmridder]

I think almost everyone here has made the same mistake when mixing ink. We use Jiffy mixers on a regular drill. Every person that makes ink, early in their time here, will pull the mixer out of the container while it's still spinning, and ink flies everywhere (go ahead and insert your jokes on pulling out early now) Always a hearty round of applause for the newb that does it.

[GaryG]

Or 20+ years ago tracking ink on the bosses office carpet. 
Who did this!? Wasn't hard to figure that one out. 
Get the extension cord for the spot gun, ugggg.

[Underbase37]

I think almost everyone here has made the same mistake when mixing ink. We use Jiffy mixers on a regular drill. Every person that makes ink, early in their time here, will pull the mixer out of the container while it's still spinning, and ink flies everywhere (go ahead and insert your jokes on pulling out early now) Always a hearty round of applause for the newb that does it.

We have seen this with the new guys in our shop as well.....but I always try to make them feel a bit better by telling them " don't worry, you'll never make as big of a mess as I did ".......

Once in the beginning of my mixing career I was mixing a 5 gallon of ECRU ( what ever color that is ) when for some reason I thought I would let go of the bucket with my feet, thinking it would just spin like it was on a turntable....not what happened. The thing started whipping around like a top out of control, spraying ink all over the place, like a blender without the lid. Ink went everywhere, all over the press, floor, walls and countertops, but I got the worst of it. My pants were covered from the knees down and I had to cut them off into shorts, my shoes were covered so bad I really wasn't saving them and I had to just throw them away and work without shoes until lunch. Sometimes when deep cleaning I feel I still find some of that Ink around.

Murphy

[bimmridder]

I did the same. I was having bad back problems and had a terrible spasm as I was bent over (go ahead with another joke). I jerked my body upright and still had the mixer running full speed. Epic (pun intended) mess. Most people only make this mistake once.

[SI]

One thing you might consider is cheap baby wipes from the "walmart".  The ones i get come in a case for like $13.  I can't remember how many wipes are in there but we just keep them everywhere, and we use them until there is no clean space left on the wipe.  I get about 2 months out of a case.  For me it is cheaper than paper towels or any other thing I have found so far.  They get plastisol off your hand like a champ as well.