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screen printing => Equipment => Topic started by: ScreenPrinter123 on June 29, 2012, 04:34:55 PM
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The truck just pulled up so away we go putting this bad boy together.
60" belt
10' infeed
12' chamber
4' outfeed
Looking forward to no more bottlenecks!
If anyone of you with 12' of heat want to let me know what you set your temps at and speed at (i.e., letting me know how long they stay in the 12' heat chamber) for plastisol prints and waterbase/discharge, that would be great.
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good for you! great purchase, those guys just helped me out too -awesome crew. . .one hell of a dryer
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I'll have to look on monday, but I think we were running about 370 and the belt speed at 30. you can find the sweet spot quick on this thing though
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Pics when assembled ASAP.
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:jealous:
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Will get more pics up shortly. So, we had a vastex Econo Red 1 before, and I'm used to having the shirts come out at 360-390 at the end of the dryer. For 12' of heat, what temps do you guys shoot for at the exit with a standard plasitisol print for complete cure?
Thanks
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Here are a couple pics as requested. Just finished 600 shirts front and back and here are a couple things now on our to do list:
1. Change out the single wall ducting for double wall because that stuff gets HHHOOOTTTT!!!
2. We may need to tighten up where the chambers connect because we were getting what appears to be some heat escape though it stopped later into the run so maybe this can be attributed to "break-in time" and was not actually heat escape. We will keep an eye on this.
3. Run a line from the rotary screw compressor because the automatic tracking (which requires air that we were not aware of when we added this optional feature) kicked on our pancake compressor enough to drive us nuts since it was three feet from us.
4. Throw that shirt on the drier as sloppy as you want because the days of folding the shirt to the size of the design to increase throughput are over!
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Watch that exhaust pipe... it's HOT.
How long from order to deliver? I've heard of some long delivery times from these guys.
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I can't remember, but I thought my delivery took less time than it took to secure funding. I didn't think it took long at all.
And yes, double wall and insulate that pipe. You will thank yourself for that one. Also, mine came with insulation on the lower flex pipe, see if you can find some high temp stuff to wrap that in.
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Thanks for the pics. That thing is awesome. I hope to someday own the smaller version of that dryer. Interchange is located a few towns from us so it seems like the right choice eventually. I heard they sell used TAS autos as well.
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Here are a couple pics as requested. Just finished 600 shirts front and back and here are a couple things now on our to do list:
1. Change out the single wall ducting for double wall because that stuff gets HHHOOOTTTT!!!
2. We may need to tighten up where the chambers connect because we were getting what appears to be some heat escape though it stopped later into the run so maybe this can be attributed to "break-in time" and was not actually heat escape. We will keep an eye on this.
3. Run a line from the rotary screw compressor because the automatic tracking (which requires air that we were not aware of when we added this optional feature) kicked on our pancake compressor enough to drive us nuts since it was three feet from us.
4. Throw that shirt on the drier as sloppy as you want because the days of folding the shirt to the size of the design to increase throughput are over!
Do not let a hired puller see #4 and take it too literally. You will end up with some toasty high spots! :o
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actually you won't with gas. that's what's cool. the whole chamber is the same temp. now, the ink smears just as well when it rubs against the infeed and outfeed damper
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Seems to me that we still had some scorches hanging in the sun when I worked in a place with big ol' American gas dryers, but then again, they had IR panels as well.
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Sooooooooooooooooooo jealous. That is all.
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That is some serious crap.
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we love ours. I will say that it isn't as stout as the old maxi-cure. The metal is much thinner on the legs and body of the dryer. It's still very sturdy, but that is one thing I noticed immediately.
The good part, it works so much better than the old maxi-cure. That thing was past it's prime and I don't miss it. Gas is far superior.
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Anyone out there have a duct fan/blower installed in their ducting for a gas dryer? We melted the motor and fan blade on the one we got from Grainger not realizing how hot the ducting would be 15 feet down the line. I am waiting to hear back from the big HVAC supplier in New Orleans that carries the double wall ducting (also not easy to find) but thought some of you may have traveled this road already.
Gilligan: Ordered March 27...Shipped June 25
Frog: Duly noted ;)
stitches4815: We about crapped our pants trying to get the third section of the heat chamber (with control panel) off of the pallet. It was a four man circus with us using 2x4's to raise the chamber on one side so we could put some 3/4" EMT underneath to slowly roll the chamber off of the pallet. Then we lifted the other side with the 2x4's so we could slide the pallet out from underneath. This was some video I wish we had to post!
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3 months is a long time. I think they may have had mine in stock, but I can't be sure. I don't feel like it took that long.
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mk162 and other md8 dryer owners: Next time you're printing, let me know what temps the top and sides of the dryer (on the outside of the chamber) are coming to with your temp guns.
Thanks!
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Anyone out there have a duct fan/blower installed in their ducting for a gas dryer? We melted the motor and fan blade on the one we got from Grainger not realizing how hot the ducting would be 15 feet down the line. I am waiting to hear back from the big HVAC supplier in New Orleans that carries the double wall ducting (also not easy to find) but thought some of you may have traveled this road already.
Is that 6" or 8" ducting?
This is something I'd like to know as well. My building owner won't allow a vertical vent through the roof, so I have to run 6" pipe about 30' horizontally to a side vent on the outside of the building. This is one of my hiccups with going gas as I don't know if an inline puller fan would do the trick?
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We currently have 6" single wall ducting. I did find a 6" fan that is rated for 266 degrees but I am not sure if that will cut it (I know a 180 degree will not). I will bring my oven thermometer from home and try to get a reading inside of the duct to see what I need (our fan needs to be about 18' from where the exhaust exits the dryer). Interchange recommends a fan if your exhaust ducting is at or greater than 15' and that you place it as close to where the duct exits the building as possible.
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Marc did let us know when we were ordering that there were a good bit of dryers in the queue so we new it would be a little longer than usual.
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check with a dryer manufacturer and they can walk you right through vertical venting, should be simple