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screen printing => Equipment => Topic started by: mimosatexas on January 21, 2016, 11:46:54 AM
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Trying to figure out how to move a huge exposure frame. It's one of the wall mounted versions and weighs way to much for any kind of furniture dolly method. For lift could work, but it is too wide and awkward I think. Do I basically need to build a crate around the thing to move it?
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I know those well.. is yours bolted to the studs and the floor.
Yeah you'll need to build a beefy crate.
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Looks like mine, It's a beast, super heavy. We didn't move far and it was still no damn fun and awkward as hell.
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when we got ours, it had a big ass frame made out 2 x 8's all around it, talk about your heavy...
Steve
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Ours came crated laying flat and than we got about 6 humans to move it once we got it out of the crate. We some how moved it off of the truck without a forklift....
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This is in another shop here in Austin who is/was getting rid of all of their equipment related to screen printing and going to only digital and vinyl. Best part, it's all been free! I have gotten a bunch of goodies from them this week:
- an American International Press (thing is like 6'x7' and weighs A TON, used the tow truck and pallet jack method I read about here to move the thing, which ended up being easier than I expected and pretty much dirt cheap compared to hiring a freight or rigging company of any kind or renting a forklift. Was $160 bucks to do EVERYTHING involved in the move.)
- a legit Cincinnati one armed bandit with 5x9 table and tons of squeegees etc
- a 48 inch squeegee sharpener
- a 24 inch squeegee sharpener
- a 3k Metal Halide exposure unit (i posted about this the other day because it needs a little work and I've never heard of the brand)
- tons of huge wooden squeegees I'm sending to mk162
- a bunch of enormous aluminum frames, though most of them need new mesh
This exposure frame is the last "good" thing left, but I think I may have to let someone else grab it. I already have a really similar sized unit with the rolling frame instead of the wall/floor mount (mine is 69x61 or something while this one is 76x56 if I remember right). Anyone interested in coming to Austin and grabbing it? PM me for contact info etc.
They also had a super old nuarc image setter but in mint condition, a bunch of old MASSIVE plotters that probably wouldnt work on a modern system based on the cable connection, an old incomplete UV curing system, a really old solvent printer (also massive) lots of huge wooden frames, a couple drying racks (the ghetto kind without springs that are designed for chloroplast, and a bunch of other stuff I probably forgot. I was going to actually grab most of that as well, but I believe a junk guy came and got it all to sell for scrap while I was working out the tow truck logistics. O well...