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screen printing => Ink and Chemicals => Topic started by: ebscreen on January 26, 2017, 03:57:04 PM

Title: Drums
Post by: ebscreen on January 26, 2017, 03:57:04 PM

For those of you buying white in drums, how are you distributing to press?
Our (actually knowledgeable) rep. mentioned a pump but I think that was for base as opposed to white.

Trying to get away from the growing mountain of empty fives we're building. A lined drum sounds pretty swell.

Title: Re: Drums
Post by: tonypep on January 26, 2017, 04:25:52 PM

We use drums and pumps for bases and whites. Canoe paddle helps when you get near the bottom

Title: Re: Drums
Post by: ebscreen on January 26, 2017, 04:31:29 PM

Quote from: tonypep on January 26, 2017, 04:25:52 PM

Canoe paddle helps when you get near the bottom

I can just see that.

I'll bother my rep about the pump.


thanks!

Title: Re: Drums
Post by: Maxie on January 27, 2017, 08:19:53 AM

I visit a printer in London who has 8 automatics, they only use gallons.
They say the hassle and mess with barrels is not worth it.

Title: Re: Drums
Post by: ebscreen on January 27, 2017, 01:31:51 PM

Weird, we're the exact opposite.

Drums come lined with a plastic bag. And even if it didn't I'd rather clean one drum than eleven buckets.

Title: Re: Drums
Post by: spotcolorsupply on January 27, 2017, 08:21:39 PM

Don't the liners get sucked in to the pump? I don't have experience with that but remember my old boss complaining about it. Most drums I've delt with were fiber or steel. Either way they are a pita to get the bottom clean, but fiber can be cut in half and scraped clean. 

Title: Re: Drums
Post by: Maxie on January 28, 2017, 05:40:14 AM

Do you have to clean the containers?
We throw them away dirty.