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General => General Discussion and ??? => Topic started by: Scobey Peterman on July 21, 2011, 11:47:01 AM
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We might start a couple of hours earlier.
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printing nekkid.
Actually, I've been scheduling screen printing in the AM and digital printing and embroidery in the afternoon. Works well. Turn off the oven after lunch.
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I definitely try to schedule printing for the coolest times. Having my shop on my residential property and working solo even allows midnight madness and operating like an after-hours club when necessary.
Frees me up to veg out here more as well! ;D
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No changes. We consider this time of year, Pre-Winter. In another 5 months, it could be 135+ degrees colder here.
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last night...I printed for 1.5 hours naked...it did feel weird gotta tell you that
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At night it hasn't been too bad. It's the humidity here that is the killer. I am sure that is true everywhere about right now.
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Heat?! What heat?
We're still waiting for summer to get here. Been averaging about 15 deg. below normal all year. If we're lucky we might break 80 today. Have only broken 90 a few days this year. When the pool in the backyard is too cold even for the kids, in mid July, you know somethings screwy.
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36" and 42" blower fans to help circulate the air. Ive been wearing basically nothing and hoping the neighbors dont see when i flash the fan to relieve the 'swoobs' ...also keep forgetting to bring in my camelbak--wouldn't be the first time i printed wearing it. LOL
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I turned the A/C on.
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about $300 a month in AC bills. 74 degrees and low humidity in the shop. It's 105-110 heat index outside. The warehouse is not AC'd and it's in the low 80's.
I figured, the price I pay for the AC comes back in better work conditions thus higher productivity and higher morale. We were lucky to find the space that was already setup, otherwise it would have been tens of thousands of dollars to install everything needed (two industrial AC units and drop ceilings). We are air conditioning about 3,000 square feet of production space and offices. I am wearing long pants 'cause it gets cold and had a wool hat on for last few days!
pierre
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We just set a new AC on the roof yesterday. Got it wired and running today. Waiting to see how it's going to handle things. I had to send people home early yesterday. It was about 105 degrees and 40% humidity in here yesterday. We'll pay a lot for the unit, and to run it. But I won't have dead bodies laying on my floor at the end of the day. I'll be happy if we can keep it around 80-85 degrees in the shop. Small area with 2 Sprint 2000s and 6 IR flashes and toss in three quartz. It doesn't matter what time we start, it just plain gets hot. Hoping for better employee moral thus more production.
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We just set a new AC on the roof yesterday. Got it wired and running today. Waiting to see how it's going to handle things. I had to send people home early yesterday. It was about 105 degrees and 40% humidity in here yesterday. We'll pay a lot for the unit, and to run it. But I won't have dead bodies laying on my floor at the end of the day. I'll be happy if we can keep it around 80-85 degrees in the shop. Small area with 2 Sprint 2000s and 6 IR flashes and toss in three quartz. It doesn't matter what time we start, it just plain gets hot. Hoping for better employee moral thus more production.
we are at 94 with 60% humidity going towards 75% humidity. You can cut the air with a knife!
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we are at 94 with 60% humidity going towards 75% humidity. You can cut the air with a knife!
I'm afraid to go out today, it will be a scorcher.
Luckily, I'm on vacation from Saturday. I will not complain about 90 degree weather when I'm on the beach :)
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Since finally replacing the dehumidifier in my screen catalog, I have been paying much more attention to our relative humidity in general.
Today, at 10:00 am, 38% outside, 49% inside.
Outside temp is 82, and the shop is dark and not operating this morning so the temp in there doesn't mean much right now. Art and computer room is in the house, air conditioned. ;D
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Start early and try get the dryer shut down as early as possible.
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we are at 94 with 60% humidity going towards 75% humidity. You can cut the air with a knife!
We had dew points of 82 degrees on Tuesday. Now that's humid. Not only could you cut it with a knife... you could scoop it with a spoon.
Literally, the only place in the world with a higher dew point was the Amazon rainforest.
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I love telling my kids in Indiana and Michigan to come to Florida to "cool off". Yesterday it was 90 in SW Florida and 96 in Michigan.
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we are at 94 with 60% humidity going towards 75% humidity. You can cut the air with a knife!
We had dew points of 82 degrees on Tuesday. Now that's humid. Not only could you cut it with a knife... you could scoop it with a spoon.
Literally, the only place in the world with a higher dew point was the Amazon rainforest.
we are at 75deg dew point, so not far behind . . . Not sure I would be willing to run screenprinting shop if the AC was not an option.
pierre
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I enjoy the heat. I do not have a/c at the house nor in my truck. so when I go into work and it reaches 105 in the press area I am used to it.. My motto is the A/C make you weak. Just let you body cool it self and stay well hydrated along with electrolites and you will be just fine.
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95 with 40% here. Coming in at 5:30 in the morning and going into the
AC in embroidery by 9:30. 8)
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105 in the shop right now, progress is slow I keep taking breaks. I miss having the shop at home and coming inside for AC and ice cold tea breaks. My cold drink stay cold for about 10 minites here at the shop. This mini fridge isnt cutting it.
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We have been experiencing a record heat wave here in OKIE land. Thus far the month of July has been the hottest ever recorded here. I think the av. temp for this month has been 89.6. This is well over the 30th day of the summer with temps at or above 100. Hot mfer for sure. It was 110 in the shop this afternoon. Fixing to shut down and go hit the pool....
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This our nastiest day of the year so far, but tomorrow is supposed to be worse. I'm in the office mostly, where we have AC, but the shop is 98 right now, and the Dew point is about 74, like light beer, effing close to water... short lunches, skip 2nd break, leave early. We'd let them come in even earlier to be able to leave earlier, but alas, they don't show up early, so...
Steve
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Thinking about switching to over nights... 6pm to 3am. Pick up customers will hate me but dang it's hot!
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36" and 42" blower fans to help circulate the air. Ive been wearing basically nothing and hoping the neighbors dont see when i flash the fan to relieve the 'swoobs' ...also keep forgetting to bring in my camelbak--wouldn't be the first time i printed wearing it. LOL
We generally start printing at 3am all year. My printers wife had a baby so he's been off the past 3 days. Been stacking the printing up and he and I will start about 9pm tomorrow night and print till it's done, proable sometime Saturday afternoon.
I gotta ask Shellyky, what is a "camelbak" Noone else asked so maybe they know, but I don't have a clue. I know what a camel t.. never mind.
Terry
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...also keep forgetting to bring in my camelbak--wouldn't be the first time i printed wearing it. LOL
I gotta ask Shellyky, what is a "camelbak" Noone else asked so maybe they know, but I don't have a clue. I know what a camel t.. never mind.
Terry
Here you go, but I'm surprised, knowing you, you didn't ask her, "one hump or two"? (http://www.camelbak.com/)
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...also keep forgetting to bring in my camelbak--wouldn't be the first time i printed wearing it. LOL
I gotta ask Shellyky, what is a "camelbak" Noone else asked so maybe they know, but I don't have a clue. I know what a camel t.. never mind.
Terry
Here you go, but I'm surprised, knowing you, you didn't ask her, "one hump or two"? ([url]http://www.camelbak.com/[/url])
I'm gettin old, didn't want to ask, ones enough!
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Brings up an PG13 or R rated joke, I first heard 50 years ago, perfect for you because it also includes cigarettes.
A woman is out on the lake, in a boat fishing with a guy friend.
He asks her if she'd like a smoke, and proceeds to take one out of an unlubricated condom (this is an old joke remember)
"What's that"? (remember, this is an old joke)
"It's a rubber, a condom, Good for keeping my smokes dry"
The next day she went to her drug store and asked where to find them. "They need to fit a pack of Camels" she told the clerk.
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Since finally replacing the dehumidifier in my screen catalog, I have been paying much more attention to our relative humidity in general.
Today, at 10:00 am, 38% outside, 49% inside.
Outside temp is 82, and the shop is dark and not operating this morning so the temp in there doesn't mean much right now. Art and computer room is in the house, air conditioned. ;D
I feel for you. 82 outside. That must be tuff...... :-\
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I just bought a swamp cooler and it is fine if you are standing within 8-10 ft of it and I put a big fan by the roll up door to exhaust the heat. Works ok but A.C. would be awesome.
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As some of you may know, I've been remodeling at a new location. It's not a big space, in fact will be a bit tight, but I've put a 15,400 btu A/C in and I'm building a suspended inverted box (like a big vent hood) to encompass the dryer footprint and outside by about 4 inches. The box will hang down to a few inches above the belt. The rising rising heat from the box will merge with the forced air from the dryer exhaust blower. The vent tubing will be 4" from the box and 4" from the blower into a 6" Y collector so air won't be forced back down......I think. I'm hoping this design will greatly minimize the heat issues created by the dryer in the workspace and not have a negative impact on the dryer curing. I'll post pics later and say whether it works or not.
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36" and 42" blower fans to help circulate the air. Ive been wearing basically nothing and hoping the neighbors dont see when i flash the fan to relieve the 'swoobs' ...also keep forgetting to bring in my camelbak--wouldn't be the first time i printed wearing it. LOL
If you keep flashing your fans you will end up with more than just 2 of them.
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From the urban dictionary: I left off #1. It was the camelt... you already know about.
2. CamelBak
A Back Pack you wear that holds a bunch of liquid. (Most of the time liquor) You then suck it out of the back pack with a straw or tube. I believe there may be a better word for this, but I have heard CamelBak used many times.
"Man bring your CamelBak along to the hockey game"
buy camelbak mugs & shirts
backpack camel bak liquor straw
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A back pack that can be used to carry an excessive amount of liquid and get sucked out of a straw connected to the liquid pouch.
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I can't believe I almost forgot.
3 years ago I bought a 10 ton central Air unit. Rheem. I was going to build a building but found an existing one. This wholesaled for about 10 large. It's big, a roof top unit. 2 stage, 5 at a time. I have specs if you'd like to see them.
Never been used, or hooked up, brand NEW. $5,000.00
If you need it, with that kind of savings, I can ship it to you from the midwest and still a GREAT DEAL!
Terry
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printing nekkid.
I will definitely knock next time I come by..... :o
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I would, it's a safe bet.
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It's been a brutal summer here so far. I've had a thermometer in the shop since we started and the last 2 summers it routinely gets up to 112-115 in the shop. We are starting 2 hous earlier and trying to set the schedule to print the bigger jobs first in the day. We have a big 18K BTU AC unit on a cart that we roll around and we put it at the load and unload station.
Our dryer puts off way too much heat to try and ac the production floor. With the dryer off, in the heat of the day it gets up to about 90-95.
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I dont start till about 8 at night during the week and start at 8 in the morning on the weekends and stop about 2 or 3 in the afternoon. Its still hot but much the worst heat of the day is between 3 and 7 pm.
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I got one of those big roll around A/C units, 12k btu's or something. Craigslist score last summer.
It's doing double duty, keeping me cool and I piped the exhaust into the screen cabinet to keep it hot and dry.
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We went on vacation. Screw the heat. We decided to walk around Branson Mo for a couple of days in the 98, 99 degree heat. What the hell were we thinking?
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You could probably find one of these from Rothco , but the last time I tried to order a few things (24 web belts) they refused my order and the guy was a bit of an a-hole about it.
(http://ts1.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=1079054112416&id=b99ef32b105f7bbf3a1ab7a494ea29e3)
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I was sick as a dog yesterday from heat exhaustion , woke up throwing up, mutilple trips to the toilet, dizzle spells, and had a nasty heat rash. Sat on the couch all day chugging down water and eating bread. Not fun... Taking it easy today printing all my no flash jobs and making screens for tomorrow. Heat isn't anything to play with or be tough about...
Drink lots of water and stay away from sugar and caffeine drinks.
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shawn, you need some more air flow, or move to atlanta. I heard it was nicer here yesterday than in the NE.
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shawn, you need some more air flow, or move to atlanta. I heard it was nicer here yesterday than in the NE.
I need to move that's for sure! Now getting the wife and kids to come with is another story... Trust me, I'd have done it by now for more reasons than just the crappy seasons.
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you can print, there is NO doubt about that. you could easily get a job as a lead printer or even start a new shop elsewhere.
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I have an ac with enough BTU's to cool a BUT as big as a TUB.