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Classified Ads => Wanted => Topic started by: BartJY on August 03, 2018, 11:27:37 AM
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Hi Folks,
Anyone have a well cared for Flash Dryer that you want to sell?
Let me know.
Bart
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Bart,
where are you located and what is your budget?
pierre
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I'm in the Charlottesville VA area.
What's my budget? I really don't know. I'd like to see what is out there before I decided how much I'm willing to spend.
Bart
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I'm in the Charlottesville VA area.
What's my budget? I really don't know. I'd like to see what is out there before I decided how much I'm willing to spend.
Bart
Flash dryers run from about $200-$3000. Bigger than you think you'll need is better than settling for smaller if possible.
Many are 220 volt.
Fancy ones go up and down or swing away with a motor, could have forced air, or can be as simple as an infra red panel on a stand.
Quality of panel can vary from Chinese Cheapies to decent stuff from Intek or BBC.
In a pinch, as was mentioned previously, a heat gun can get the job done at a hobby level.
Also, with water based inks, some have catalysts available to aid curing. The first water based inks I used were cured with a hand iron (but I was printing yardage on a big table.
At a hobby level, water based inks can be somewhat easier to deal with than plastisol with gerry-rigged albeit slow methods. (Not conducive to real production) Plastisol requires getting the entire ink level to cure temp (around 300). That is tough to do with consistency without a real dryer (sometimes even with on that's small)
Waterbased inks require driving all of the water away. But, that can also be done after a cursory drying on the press.
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I saw a nice Vastex Redflash w/ Auto Flash Base on DigitSmith, but it's in California.
http://www.digitsmith.com/vastex-redflash-w-autoflash-base-56853.html (http://www.digitsmith.com/vastex-redflash-w-autoflash-base-56853.html)