Pallet glue everywhere

[jvieira]

This is the main complaint in our shop. We are using waterbased pallet glue (made the switch from cans last year and it was worth it!!) but glue residue is still getting everywhere.

Our people keep complaining they have glue residue on the shirt stock, also lots of it on the floors (they become sticky rather quickly) and pretty much everywhere else. How do you guys deal with this?

[Printficient]

How are you applying it.  Here we use Xenon Xenzu PAC which is a adhesive remover with an ink degrader in it.  Perfect for cleaning the floor and residue from the press.

[dirkdiggler]

First you should be cutting it 50/50 with water, second apply with a foam roller.  No mess.

[LuckyFlyinROUSH]

We use a brand from Tekmar, I don' think we mix it with water at all. Depends on the brand you use/glue.

However we put it in a gatorate bottle with a pin hole in the top. Squirt it on pallets, and swipe it with a cleanup card. It shouldn't get in the air...

[kingscreen]

We cut 50/50 with water and keep it in a Dollar Store size dish detergent bottle.  We apply it using a CleanUp card.

[Gilligan]

We use a brand from Tekmar, I don' think we mix it with water at all. Depends on the brand you use/glue.

However we put it in a gatorate bottle with a pin hole in the top. Squirt it on pallets, and swipe it with a cleanup card. It shouldn't get in the air...

What he said.

I can't even fathom glue everywhere.

[mk162]

We use a brand from Tekmar, I don' think we mix it with water at all. Depends on the brand you use/glue.

However we put it in a gatorate bottle with a pin hole in the top. Squirt it on pallets, and swipe it with a cleanup card. It shouldn't get in the air...

What he said.

I can't even fathom glue everywhere.

That''s because you didn't print in the 80's and 90's.

[Gilligan]

We use a brand from Tekmar, I don' think we mix it with water at all. Depends on the brand you use/glue.

However we put it in a gatorate bottle with a pin hole in the top. Squirt it on pallets, and swipe it with a cleanup card. It shouldn't get in the air...

What he said.

I can't even fathom glue everywhere.

That''s because you didn't print in the 80's and 90's.

No, I get it with spray tack... I've seen that... everything looks like a muppet.

I'm saying using waterbase tack I just can't fathom getting that stuff everywhere... it's too easy to use.

[JBLUE]

This is the main complaint in our shop. We are using waterbased pallet glue (made the switch from cans last year and it was worth it!!) but glue residue is still getting everywhere.

Our people keep complaining they have glue residue on the shirt stock, also lots of it on the floors (they become sticky rather quickly) and pretty much everywhere else. How do you guys deal with this?

Tell your guys to quit being slobs. That sounds like more of the problem than the glue itself. The only way it gets on stuff is when guys start slinging it in a hurry or they just dont give a sh!t. We card ours on and have used the foam roller too. Very little if any mess.

[Frog]

We use a brand from Tekmar, I don' think we mix it with water at all. Depends on the brand you use/glue.

However we put it in a gatorate bottle with a pin hole in the top. Squirt it on pallets, and swipe it with a cleanup card. It shouldn't get in the air...

What he said.

I can't even fathom glue everywhere.

That''s because you didn't print in the 80's and 90's.

No, I get it with spray tack... I've seen that... everything looks like a muppet.

I'm saying using waterbase tack I just can't fathom getting that stuff everywhere... it's too easy to use.

Some folks do apply water based adhesive with a spray gun, but then need to take a little care and perhaps use the simple mask I've talked about for years.
If it takes a little longer to be neat, so be it!

[mimosatexas]

yea...confused like others.  Since using waterbased adhesive there is no glue or residue anywhere but on the top of my pallets...not on the floor, anywhere on the press, the shirts, etc.

I apply with a paper towel and a restaurant squirt bottle, cut at least 50/50 with water.  I use textac.  I have been using the same bottle for something like 4 years...it lasts forever.

[ffokazak]

Haha I JUST ran out of Textac, and replaced it. I told everyone it lasted for 4 years! It does go a long way.

Cutting it in half also reduces the initial "Bite" to it.  A few new press ops slathered that stuff on like Mayo on a sandwich, and the shirts had to be surgically removed!

[screenxpress]

Haha I JUST ran out of Textac, and replaced it. I told everyone it lasted for 4 years! It does go a long way.

Cutting it in half also reduces the initial "Bite" to it.  A few new press ops slathered that stuff on like Mayo on a sandwich, and the shirts had to be surgically removed!

Been using textac for years myself.  Goes a long, long way and I really like it.

[Itsa Little CrOoked]

I started to use a foam roller after years of dribbling...ahem..... the stuff out of a ketchup bottle, and spreading the dribbles around with a foam brush.

The roller is better, at least for me. No mess whatsoever.

I also can't imagine how the liquid gets on your press, floors, etc.

CCI Top Bond for us, cut with water at least half and half, probably way weaker than that most times. I don't really measure. I just fill the squirt bottle a ways, then put in at least that much water and shake. I love the stuff.

Hoodies still get web spray most times, unless its just a couple of turns around the carousel. I use the Cardboard Frog "O" Mask™® every single time I spray it. Spraytac icks me out so bad....

So add my voice to the mystified masses.

[mooseman]

get one of these, the tight cell foam roller works great and soon will skin over with the WB stuff.
one hint....... add some ordinary food coloring to the 50 / 50  or 60/40 or something to something water / bond mix so you can see better how you are covering the pallet.
mooseman

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