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Offline Action1

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New use for Roller squeegees
« on: January 22, 2015, 04:27:30 PM »
Hello friends of TSB:

I am compelled to share with you a new use for your roller squeegees. A very large and well known facility has provided the following tip/ trick for a way to use the roller squeegee as a delinting tool.
Wrap the roller squeegee with velcro (barbed) like a tennis racket - as shown in picture.
Put the utensil in head 1 with out a screen
When the velcro rolls over the shirt it - removes excess threads and lints
The roller at position 1 will also flatten out the shirt and better the adherence of the shirt to the pallet.
When the utensil is filled with lint - it can be brushed off.

I wrapped these in about two minutes with the an assistant. It sure seems like  great plan to me. I hope someone will report back with results soon.


Offline Rob Coleman

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Re: New use for Roller squeegees
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2015, 04:50:33 PM »
This is a great idea.  I have heard this as well, just have not seen it in ACTION - see what I did there?  :)

Would be interested in others thoughts and to see how long you could use the Velcro before having to clean/replace?  I guess it depends upon the nastiness of the fabric!
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Re: New use for Roller squeegees
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2015, 05:02:37 PM »
I wonder who the large production facility is ;) ;) ;)

When we were doing hot market printing for Nike 1 year ago, we were doing this EXACT thing with our roller squeegee. The reps from pai fashion and nike said they had never seen it done before but they had seen the roller used w/ teflon like normal but not wrapped with velcro  :)

I've been doing something else with my roller lately that has served another purpose but it's probably being done already so I wont bother mentioning what it is  8)
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Re: New use for Roller squeegees
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2015, 05:05:49 PM »
Making pizza dough?

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Re: New use for Roller squeegees
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2015, 05:07:15 PM »
Hi Danny:

It wasn't you I was actually thinking of. However - this is really great news to hear that there is yet another use for roller squeegees. Can you give us a ballpark number for the number of shirts you can delint before having to clean it?

What's the other thing with the roller you've been doing? Inquiring minds want to know!

Erik

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Re: New use for Roller squeegees
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2015, 05:10:10 PM »
16" laminating rollers for fiberglass and a little spray tack.

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Re: New use for Roller squeegees
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2015, 05:46:25 PM »
How is it attached and----Can it come off easily?

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Re: New use for Roller squeegees
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2015, 05:54:25 PM »
The barbed velcro is 1" wide and has adhesive on the backing. It looks like the very ends of the roller where the velcro ends are needs to be wrapped a few times with tape to hold it in place.

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Re: New use for Roller squeegees
« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2015, 06:13:52 PM »
Making pizza dough?

Roller out the dough, screen print the sauce, flock the cheese, add the toppings at unload, run through the dryer.  If screen printing doesn't work out, 450 pizzas per hour sounds like a decent back up plan.

On the topic of the roller, I got one recently to play with and it is impressively built and has some very interesting applications with a bit of creativity.  Definitely dig the velcro idea, although you would need a dedicated one just for that I'd think.

Now I just need to figure out how to keep the teflon sheet on a screen.  Any tips?  I used web tac and polyken tape, but the tac didn't hold very long.
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Re: New use for Roller squeegees
« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2015, 06:16:24 PM »
You should make a single unit with 2 rollers, the first with the velcro and then the standard roller behind to flatten.

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Re: New use for Roller squeegees
« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2015, 07:13:54 AM »
You mean like this?

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Re: New use for Roller squeegees
« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2015, 07:17:36 AM »
Making pizza dough?


Now I just need to figure out how to keep the teflon sheet on a screen.  Any tips?  I used web tac and polyken tape, but the tac didn't hold very long.

Use  3M 77 or similar. It needs to be something better than pallet glue.

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Re: New use for Roller squeegees
« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2015, 12:05:21 PM »
...need to bring this back up, if anyone here has one of these and uses it for this application.....I just bought another roller with the velcro for lint pickup. For those that do this, any guidelines on what pressure to use?
Thanks TSB gang!!

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Re: New use for Roller squeegees
« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2015, 12:12:03 PM »
You mean like this?

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