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screen printing => Equipment => Topic started by: AntonySharples on December 10, 2014, 09:55:24 PM
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This guy ;D
I am so pumped. It's our first auto and decided to go big or go home. Total game changer for us!
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Congrats!!! What set up did you get?
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I got the YOU 8/10, 2 quartz flashes, 54" Dryer. I can't stop watching videos!
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You'll have to post some pic's, I seem vid's, those are some sweet running press's I'm told good luck and happy early Christmas coming your way 8)
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did you get it from TechSPS? when is it coming in?
pierre
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did you get it from TechSPS? when is it coming in?
pierre
I got it from Ryonet. Ryan was EXTREMELY helpful. We are moving into a bigger building first of January and we should have it installed towards the end of January. Pierre, would love to have you come visit and check it out. You showed me great hospitality and I can return the favor! I'll keep you posted.
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did you get it from TechSPS? when is it coming in?
pierre
I got it from Ryonet. Ryan was EXTREMELY helpful. We are moving into a bigger building first of January and we should have it installed towards the end of January. Pierre, would love to have you come visit and check it out. You showed me great hospitality and I can return the favor! I'll keep you posted.
huh, did you talk to tech SPS? I think this is legally their territory. I might be missing something, but check with Ryan and confirm before there is trouble.
pierre
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did you get it from TechSPS? when is it coming in?
pierre
I got it from Ryonet. Ryan was EXTREMELY helpful. We are moving into a bigger building first of January and we should have it installed towards the end of January. Pierre, would love to have you come visit and check it out. You showed me great hospitality and I can return the favor! I'll keep you posted.
huh, did you talk to tech SPS? I think this is legally their territory. I might be missing something, but check with Ryan and confirm before there is trouble.
pierre
hmmmm, I did not know anything about that. I reached out to them, so not sure. I'll talk with him in the morning.
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You got an S.roque dryer? Very interested in hearing all about that.
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Congrats, dude! Welcome to the family.
A gas dryer is next on the list for us. Did you get a gas dryer?
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We went with an electric dryer, built for Ryonet. We may change our minds and go with the gas dryer.
I got the scoop and Tech has east coast distribution, not covering us.
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Welcome to the family. You will be happy. I would look into a gas dryer. thats my opinion. Not sure the Electric one that ryonet is selling can handle the volume. Again, congrats and welcome
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If you're going to spend that kind of money on a press but have a bottleneck with your dryer then go for it, but I sure wouldn't go that route. I know there are plenty here with super nice autos but dryers that can't handle the production capacity and it works for their production model but it wouldn't work with ours. We run our auto as fast as the print allows and with a loader and unloader on jobs over 50 pieces so we need a dryer to keep up with running short sprints. It's not a model for everyone but it has allowed us to do the type of volume that other local shops use 2 autos for.
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Do whatever it takes to get a gas dryer. For one, you will save a crap ton on the energy bill, at least if electric where you are is similar to us. The loan pmt+the gas bill for us is literally lower than the electric bill alone on our old, all electric dryer which had a much lower capacity than our gas dryer. Second, like Alan says, you need the dryer to keep up with your whole operation running full bore. Last year I upgraded us to a high air flow, 400k btu, 16' chamber with a 60" belt and honestly, I would have gone bigger if we had the space. Think about running max print size on all your machines at your top speeds at once and what that would look like placing the shirts on the belt; especially when you get WB/DC/HSA going down that belt, you are going to need a lot of dwell. Running multiple presses will also bring up a strong case for getting a split belt. We have been running 1 auto and 1 manual, going to be 2 auto, 1 manual this week finally and I'll say it can be huge having another belt speed to work with and run low cure plastisols at the same time WB prints are printing on the other press. Saves a lot of time/hassle waiting for a break to run down the lower curing stuff.
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We're in the same boat right now. Looking to upgrade to gas dryer in 2015. Assembling our second auto right now and there's just no way that our current dryer is going to be able to handle both of them if we have them running at the same time.
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We've got a 60" belt and 10 feet of heat, two presses. Still not enough some days, and hot market is a tetris game.
I'm waiting to hear how that fella on here likes his split-belt, because we need that or two dryers.
Super fast press and a rink-a-dink dryer is like doing 80 with the brakes on.
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I have seen picts or heard many go auto with a dryer that can only take say 20% of their press.
We first bought a large gas dryer ramping up for an auto. The funds were
not quite there for an automatic, but enough for dryer the year before a press which helped
tremendously in that order. My wife said back then, you're getting the auto this year, because it's going
to be a "bathroom" next, so get to it! Man, I'm glad I did. ;D
You are goin'a like that 8/10 Green machine!
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I'd also argue that having a too small dryer to keep up with your press puts you in the position of
possibly undercuring, a place to stay far far away from.
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I'd also argue that having a too small dryer to keep up with your press puts you in the position of
possibly undercuring, a place to stay far far away from.
You aint lyin!