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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: screenxpress on April 02, 2012, 01:51:24 PM
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Anyone care to share a pic of your DIY racks to hold squeegees?
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I made this with just a 2x4 and a couple of dowel rods.
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I thought that it is better not to have squeegees sit on the blades all the time, that it is better to keep them upside-down (Blades up).
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I would certainly put my squeegees in the other way around, handle first
I find one of the big advantages is to not have to clean them if the same color will be soon used again.
At any rate, that looks just like my last DIY rack.
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we are going to build one (some day) when we do it will look a lot like a 2x4 ripped up the center bored out to accept 1/2 PVC pipe glued in with Gorilla glue...should be bomb proof.
estimated price less than $5.00 for everything.
PS we like Gorilla glue cuz it expands to fill any gaps / slop or Sam Adams induced clearances ;)
mooseman
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I would certainly put my squeegees in the other way around, handle first
I find one of the big advantages is to not have to clean them if the same color will be soon used again.
At any rate, that looks just like my last DIY rack.
Do yours sit almost flat?
I've found, especially with Union Inks, they all are fluid enough that they would run up against the handle making a mess. Or are we talking about just meager remnants after being carded off the blade?
Just wondering.
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Mounted on the wall, with the dowels at enough angle that even when a handle "droops" it is wedged like the bottom one in this pic.
I do scrape them clean, just not wash them if a common color.
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Made this out of a MDF strip and a 2x6 I had laying around with a router. It's sloppy but functional.
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we have the hold board with hangers on it for the aluminum squeegees
over a year ago I cut up a couple dish racks and made holders out of it for the wooden squeegees - works pretty well and I think there was a tutorial on youtube for those
for automatic floodbars/squeegees we just recycled some other wood and made small basic shelving about 5"x20" each shelf
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I use slat wall and 8" and 12" hooks to set squeegees on. Infinitely moveable and customizable. Check a retail supply catalog for slat wall hooks, shelf brackets, ect. And lowes carries painted and unpainted slat wall but it's possible to fine it cheaper if you have better lumber yards.
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Made this out of a MDF strip and a 2x6 I had laying around with a router. It's sloppy but functional.
Nothing personal, but you are just sooooo funny, lol.
Are those expandable gripper clamps I see holding that device to something?
Then again, necessity is the Mother of Invention :D
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Well,
Made this out of a MDF strip and a 2x6 I had laying around with a router. It's sloppy but functional.
Nothing personal, but you are just sooooo funny, lol.
Are those expandable gripper clamps I see holding that device to something?
Then again, necessity is the Mother of Invention :D
Well, I guess I should have tossed in the disclaimer that this was just after I built it and I just did that to test out the proof of concept to make sure it worked like I thought it would. That isn't the final resting place of them. LOL
That was one 8"(?) strip of MDF that I zigzagged through so there was virtually no waste.
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Made this out of a MDF strip and a 2x6 I had laying around with a router. It's sloppy but functional.
Is that green soy based spray foam insulation. I started a company a few years back installing that. It is really good stuff and is cool to install and watch expand.
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Gilligan, have you been snooping around my shop? Mine looks almost identical. But I have my laying flat on a table not mounted.
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LOL.. no snooping... just took ideas from a few "commercial" ones and went at it.
Not sure if it's soy based... it doesn't like UV I know that... but it's great stuff (not actual product name)... it was $2400 bucks to do walls and roof of a 30x30 building (roof is about 32 linear feet). I would have liked to have done closed cell but they wanted 5k+!
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Here is what we have.
(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d97/ScobeyP/0407020717a.jpg)
(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d97/ScobeyP/0407020717.jpg)
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Thanks for all the suggestions. Originally I was going to use dowel pegs like Andy's. Then thought about cutting a patterns similar to Gilligan's. Met my neighbor at the fence and after a chat, ended up with this.
Ripped some 1 3/4 strips and chopped them at 5 in. with a 5 degree angle. Glued and tacked with brad gun on both sides of a 1x6. I'll spray it white and mount to the wall. Will hold 15 squeegees.
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Woohoo! I gave back to the community! ;)
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15 bucks from Ryonet
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Yea, knew about those, but they are $15 for a pair that holds only 5 squeegees. Looks like you have quite a few $15 buck pairs on the wall, lol.
I was targeting to hold 12-15 and didn't want to toss a fifty at it.
Yours does look nice and neat tho on the wall.
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Bit cluttered when the pic was taken but you get the idea. Its 6' tall, base is 16"x16" and holds 42 squeegees from 1"-16".
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That one is sweet Bink--I'd get a star for the top, and hang lights and ornaments on it for Christmas. ;D
Here's a pretty low profile setup--under ink shelves. I think it cost four bucks for the dowels. The wood glue (expired emulsion) was free.
If I were to do it again, I would borrow someones drill press--it was really easy to build, and works great, but the handles are not all drilled straight. Some jerk was in a hurry. ::)
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I like both of those!
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Yea, knew about those, but they are $15 for a pair that holds only 5 squeegees. Looks like you have quite a few $15 buck pairs on the wall, lol.
I was targeting to hold 12-15 and didn't want to toss a fifty at it.
Yours does look nice and neat tho on the wall.
Yes 15 bucks for the pair and holds five squeegees I think. I think we spent like $100 on what you see there.