THEY'RE HERE...S Thread Statics

[alan802]

River City as well, but he's a 10 minute drive from me

[cleveprint]

placed an order for a few of them. guy responded in about 10 minutes saying they were shipping! pretty quick service.

[mimosatexas]

only a 4 minute drive for me!

[TCT]

quick question, where is everyone buying the S tread statics at? anyone in the midwest? just for shipping purposes id like to get them from somewhere close. i want to try a few of these puppies in our shop. im sick of just reading about them

nwgraphic.com Up here in MN, ask for Ben he is a good guy.

[screenprintguy]

Just got my first batch of re-meshes from Spot Color Supply with S-Mesh. Can't wit to try these bad boys out. Had half done with the permanent block out to give that a whirl. Nice fast job guys!!!

[mimosatexas]

So that is remeshed with S-mesh?  Definitely let us know how they hold up and print.  I would love to have any popped or old screens remeshed with S-mesh and nobody really does it...

Careful with your pressure washer on that red glue by the way.  I had a handful of screens a while ago with that glue and even my bottom of the barrel lowe's pressure washer on fan setting ate through it pretty quick.  Not saying that is the norm, but something to look out for...

[screenprintguy]

What's crazy is the newman's I've had with S-Mesh on them have held up with no popping. I think a lot has to do with the stretching. Shurloc told me the exact tension to put on them and not to over do it and they have been great. I hope these hold up as well. Love printing through this mesh it's awesome stuff. I'm also anxious to see how well the blockout holds up. May help cut tape down big time.

[Itsa Little CrOoked]

I've decided to bump this thread.

Lots of stuff here, and it might just catch the eye of someone who needs to see it.

I just got on board since the first of the year, with statics from Kevin @ River City. I've noticed how my waterbased DC jobs are staying open better.

Anybody else have something new to add since November?

Stan

[jvanick]

one thing I've learned is that you have to pick your restretching vendor carefully.

the guy in my area that does it, does not have the experience to correctly re-stretch S-mesh, and they come in at 17-18N, and drop to 13-14N after a few cycles... totally unacceptable in my book...

on a non-critical job yesterday, we compared printing at 14N with a 160S to printing with a 160S at 25N on a roller frame... (shurloc/murakami recommend 18-29N)...  the 25N prints were WAY better, at less pressure...

Other than that, I LOVE s-mesh.

Can anyone comment on the River-City S-Mesh screens, incoming tension and how well they hold up after several cycles?

[KevWilso]

All my Smesh screens are stretched by Murakami and have consistently been coming in at 22n. 

Also, some of you guys have asked me to stock the SMesh panels, so we added the Shur loc panels for use with 23"x31" M3 Rollers. 

[alan802]

It's been almost a year and a half since I first got these and I have 3 of the original 5 left.  We lost them both due to gorillas handling them and we've cut our screen damage in half since my last fit.  All 3 are in the 19 to 20 newton range and for those mesh counts that is FAR superior to standard mesh at even 30 newtons.  If anyone is still on the fence on whether or not they should at the very least try these, good lord just pull the trigger on a few of them and send us all a thank you letter when you realize you could have been printing like this for many years.

I thought I had put the tension levels somewhere in this thread, it should be full of real-world tension levels we've seen. 

[jvanick]

Kev - can you guys do permanent blockout on the edges?

[KevWilso]

I don't do that, but we sell the permanent block out.  I would be worried I would block out too much or too little depending on the end users expectations.

[ABuffington]

Newman Roller users should consider using Shurloc panels when printing with Murakami S Mesh.  There are 2 reasons. 
1. The mesh rests on the plastic strip that shurloc adheres to the mesh and not on the sharp inside edge of the Newmans which are often nicked or dented and not friendly to fine thread meshes.
2. They are pre-softened in the corners and tension well, but most impotantly save you a ton of time (labor$) to capture and tension.

Al

[starchild]

I don't do that, but we sell the permanent block out.  I would be worried I would block out too much or too little depending on the end users expectations.

You're worried of providing a certain level of standards to the end user?? But that's a key offering. I figure they'll respect what you've got to offer more..

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