Getting ready for a tech

[Prosperi-Tees]

I think it was old and they just overlooked it in the refurb, I guess it's not that important of a piece.

[IntegrityShirts]

http://modesto.craigslist.org/tls/4046717141.html

1 hour away, 10hp 3phase, and $800

Dude, what's wrong with this one? Looks like around 33CFM and has a newer motor.

[Prosperi-Tees]

http://modesto.craigslist.org/tls/4046717141.html

1 hour away, 10hp 3phase, and $800

Dude, what's wrong with this one? Looks like around 33CFM and has a newer motor.

im gonna give them a shout today! Thanks!

[Prosperi-Tees]

So when the tech was measuring the print stroke he said max I could get was maybe 16". This is a 18" print area machine. Does anyone with a Gauntlet in the mid 90s era get more than a 16" stroke?

[GraphicDisorder]

So when the tech was measuring the print stroke he said max I could get was maybe 16". This is a 18" print area machine. Does anyone with a Gauntlet in the mid 90s era get more than a 16" stroke?

Screen size is going to also dictate that.  23x31 may be tight on some presses to get 18.  May need more like a 23x33.

If the press will do 18, just find the screen size needed to accomplish it. 

[244]

So when the tech was measuring the print stroke he said max I could get was maybe 16". This is a 18" print area machine. Does anyone with a Gauntlet in the mid 90s era get more than a 16" stroke?

the press has a 16 " long image area with a 23X31 frame.

[Homer]

Gerry, where are you measuring exactly? I measure from where the flood bar stops and the squeegie ends. you do have those extra 2" or so between the squeegie and the flood bar but that has always been a grey area for us as far as printability. somedays we can squeak out the extra inch but somedays we need that flood.

[broadway]

You can always use double beveled squeegees with no angle. I just printed a back image that was almost 17" long without beveled squeegees ('95 Gauntlet S (16x18 max image). You just adjust your bumpers, as long as your squeegee still lands on the front of the platten and your flood clears the image you should be fine. If you adjust the bumpers make sure you tighten them up real good, they can easily come loose. My press will not take any screen longer than 31".

[GaryG]

Now that's some ingenuity!

[244]

You can always use double beveled squeegees with no angle. I just printed a back image that was almost 17" long without beveled squeegees ('95 Gauntlet S (16x18 max image). You just adjust your bumpers, as long as your squeegee still lands on the front of the platten and your flood clears the image you should be fine. If you adjust the bumpers make sure you tighten them up real good, they can easily come loose. My press will not take any screen longer than 31".

If you adjust the bumpers and bottom out the cylinder stroke on its self  your cylinders will prematurely fail. Need to know what you are doing to be safe.

[Prosperi-Tees]

We tried to print a 1 color print today. Set up the screen in head 8. Printed nice for about 3 prints and then the flood and squeegee stopped chopping, it would just move to the front and then go back. I got frustrated and threw it on the manual to finish up the job. I then went back and turned all heads on thinking that maybe it was starving for air but all the other heads chopped and printed as normal although under no load.

[GaryG]

Ingenuity on the - vertical squeegee with bevel
giving print angle. Don't ever modify the
Great Blue Machine!!

[cbjamel]

We tried to print a 1 color print today. Set up the screen in head 8. Printed nice for about 3 prints and then the flood and squeegee stopped chopping, it would just move to the front and then go back. I got frustrated and threw it on the manual to finish up the job. I then went back and turned all heads on thinking that maybe it was starving for air but all the other heads chopped and printed as normal although under no load.

I have a 97 g2 8/10 - Make sure the program is setup correct, also check the sensors are working red when head is in foward or backward. Or if the optic shirt doesn't have a shirt or hit the reflective on the bottom in the right place.
I run a 7.5 ir compressor, to small barely If printing 6-8 colors.
Just runs slowly.
My Thoughts.
Shane