How to get more print stroke length?

[GaryG]

Actually the corners of Newmans are a flat surface, therefore grabbing is not an issue.
Beta vs VHS give me a break.  It'd be neat to know how many of each are in the field.
"Square" tire vs "Round" tire? Just joshing ya!

I'd be interested to see that altered flood bar.

[Inkworks]

Beta vs VHS give me a break.  It'd be neat to know how many of each are in the field.

There are scads more Newmans out there, and I believe Hix have some advantages, hence the Beta vs. VHS comparison. (Hix being Beta)

[GaryG]

Oh sorry, had that backwards.
Just figured the other way around after your passion post.
 

[Prosperi-Tees]

Do they still make the Hix? Its not on their website

[Inkworks]

You're right, they were on there earlier this year. Maybe they killed Beta again...

[3Deep]

How did this thread get to hix frames? I have some and love them but don't have a tighten tool so if they break all I have is a frame LOL.

Darryl

[Gilligan]

How did this thread get to hix frames? I have some and love them but don't have a tighten tool so if they break all I have is a frame LOL.

Darryl

Just be lucky you aren't talking about tape.

[Inkworks]

I got rid of the Newmans, bought Hix's and ROI was 11 seconds just because of one newman with a stripped end cap that we spent 3 months trying to tighten, the extra stroke length was pure profit.

[alan802]

I got rid of the Newmans, bought Hix's and ROI was 11 seconds just because of one newman with a stripped end cap that we spent 3 months trying to tighten, the extra stroke length was pure profit.

Freaking awesome!!!  I got a good chuckle out of that.

[ScreenFoo]

I always thought the Hix (and IIRC, Diamond Chase makes some really similar square retens too) were a pretty cool design, especially for their flexibility on press, but IMHO the biggest prob with Newmans is worse with many square bar designs, and that's the weight.  If it wasn't, I wouldn't have statics here at all.  I think the Hix style are different from the DC roller in a square design though, are they as light/lighter than Newmans?

I was thinking the other day that the old draw-bar style stretchers seem as if they would be more similar to a good segmented clamp stretcher, i.e. superior to the way a newman style frame stretches the whole length regardless of difference in elongation.

Gilligan--"LIKE"