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screen printing => Screen Making => Topic started by: 3Deep on November 30, 2023, 09:34:52 AM
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Hey got a question here, it's starting to get cold down here in the south and my emulsion and white inks are taking a beating, I have most of my inks are on the shelf but some gal on the the floor which is concrete. What are you cats up north doing to keep your inks and emulsion at a good temp during these winter months, I wish I had just a room to store my inks and emulsion but the shop just ain't big enough for that.
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we have a heated ink room, One Stroke inks. Perfect combo for cold weather. Now..... if we can only teach our new UPS guy to NOT open the bay door until he's ready to unload his truck, I'd be all set. Nothing like watching him search for a box "It'S oN hErE sOmeWhere" and ALLLL My heat goes out the door... ::)
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I love it when they pick up and leave the dock door open when they leave. I may not even notice for a half hour or more depending on where in the building I am. Not good when it's below zero. (not that cold...Yet)
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I tell them to leave them right outside our garage door. Then when truck unloaded, we open the door and bring them in quick and close.
For our inks, they are in the shop and I have some shelves from Home Depot that they sit on. Ill attach a pic
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Heated room here too. Do you have room for a small cabinet, just big enough for your go to inks?
Or build a box that you can hang off a wall or the ceiling and heat it with a small electric heater.
Get yourself something like an Inkbird controller to plug it into for temp control.
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Some bigger shelves might not be a bad idea to get some of gallons of inks off the floor, and a heated box also sounds like a good idea, these morning the white inks where stiff as all get out.
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My friends at Kerusso in Arkansas use restaurant heat lamps to warm up the white inks pre production and keep them warm throughout harsh winter days (not overnight!)
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My friends at Kerusso in Arkansas use restaurant heat lamps to warm up the white inks pre production and keep them warm throughout harsh winter days (not overnight!)
Food related items to avoid...Crockpots.
Seemed like a good idea if I used the warm setting. Not so much, cured about an inch worth of ink all the way around the inside.
Yeah, I dumped a gallon of white right in. Doing a water bath might have been the better move.
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It's at 50 degrees all night back there. We use one stroke, no one has complained about it being too stiff or hard to use. Maybe just keeping off the floor is all ya need.
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It's at 50 degrees all night back there. We use one stroke, no one has complained about it being too stiff or hard to use. Maybe just keeping off the floor is all ya need.
You could be right, but I do need to more shelf space or throw out some old inks LOL
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I'm really not trying to be a smart ass here. What is the cost of turning up (programming) the thermostat enough to make a difference? Compared to the time you have to eff around getting things going and making money?
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A shallow water tank with a livestock deicer in it should work. I believe that info has posted on this site in the past.
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I'm really not trying to be a smart ass here. What is the cost of turning up (programming) the thermostat enough to make a difference? Compared to the time you have to eff around getting things going and making money?
Well for one I would have to heat up the whole building since we have one unit that heats and cool the whole place, I'd rather keep one smaller place warm than the whole building.
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I understand. I guess a lot of ways to skin a cat.
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20 miles west of Boston, so we see some cold, usually not too extreme. We keep the inks on shelves, and if there is an occasional issue, a few minutes on top a dryer takes care of that. Don't lose track of time, but then again the tops of dryers don't reach curing temps.
Steve
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We have an ink room with its own air vent and exhaust fan. Inks stay there and ink carts go in at the end of the day. Stays a little warmer than the shop floor.
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You guys have me thinking now, how COLD is it getting by the inks that you are getting concerned? We let it drop to 50 on the weekends and nights in the winter inside here on the printing side. Offices and embroidery stays warmer. Our last building the inks would get even colder as they were on a outside wall. I never really thought about this, probably because our plastisol hardly ever gets touched, but you guys have me wondering how cold your shops are getting that this is a issue...
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You guys have me thinking now, how COLD is it getting by the inks that you are getting concerned? We let it drop to 50 on the weekends and nights in the winter inside here on the printing side. Offices and embroidery stays warmer. Our last building the inks would get even colder as they were on a outside wall. I never really thought about this, probably because our plastisol hardly ever gets touched, but you guys have me wondering how cold your shops are getting that this is a issue...
we struggle to stay at 62 in the shop Dec-March. ink room is about 65-68. To me it's still cold, my office is 65 and i'm still shaking like a fat kid in a dodgeball line.
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My office is at 72-73 and im still cold.
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Jesus ;D ;D ;D
I would DIE if my office was 73! In the summer 105 heat index our print floor doesn't go over 74 even with the flashes and both dryers! In the winter during the day the whole shop stays between 69-71. We have furnaces to warm it up, but eventually for a few months the flashes and dryers kinda do the heating.
Here this whole time you guys had me starting to consider lowering the overnight and weekend temps! ;D
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HAHA.. on our shop floor we have to garage doors we keep open in the summer and nicer months. So whatever it is outside is inside. My office has AC.. and im at 68 for that..LOL
Yes im def soft.
But for years my office was in back and I just sat at the desk sweating like HOMER sweats.
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Temp in the shop area is 61 to 63 this morning the front office part is 68, getting my inks off the floor I think will help, but having an ink room just for inks would be nice ;D