I was about to clean and abrade a new screen and couldn't find the bottle of clean/abrade solution.Is there anything else I can use?
Thanks
Roderick
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Cleaning and abradeing screens
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Roderick Treece
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Powdered Bon Ami first, comet or equal in a pinch. Rinse out well with high pressure water.
Bon Ami is sufficient to clean and abrade screens by itself, so any speciality cleaners or abrasives can be eliminated in most cases for cleaning and screen prep.
Apply water and bon ami, then scrub both sides with a nylon scrub brush. Rinse both sides with a pressure washer. Lacking a pressure washer, throughly rinse with a garden hose.
Bon Ami is sufficient to clean and abrade screens by itself, so any speciality cleaners or abrasives can be eliminated in most cases for cleaning and screen prep.
Apply water and bon ami, then scrub both sides with a nylon scrub brush. Rinse both sides with a pressure washer. Lacking a pressure washer, throughly rinse with a garden hose.
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Hi Roderick,
Just to throw out some perspective for you...Darla and I live in the northwest corner of Wyoming—the least populated state of 50. We don't have a sign supply shop anywhere in the state, so all of our supplies must be shipped in or substituted. I got a little bit of a chuckle by your post because it reminds me of something I might ask(with so little in the way of local resources). You live in a city with a sign supply shop on about every third corner! I'd just run down to one of them and buy a bottle of Naz-Dar screen abrading compound, made specifically for the job!
Mike Jackson
Just to throw out some perspective for you...Darla and I live in the northwest corner of Wyoming—the least populated state of 50. We don't have a sign supply shop anywhere in the state, so all of our supplies must be shipped in or substituted. I got a little bit of a chuckle by your post because it reminds me of something I might ask(with so little in the way of local resources). You live in a city with a sign supply shop on about every third corner! I'd just run down to one of them and buy a bottle of Naz-Dar screen abrading compound, made specifically for the job!
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I seldom find it necessary to abrade my screens whether scooping or using indirect film.
I know a film chemist that creates a specialized adhesive component that is applied to screen
films to make them bond to the screen for long printing run endurance.
But when I did want to add a tooth to the screen, I just used a worn piece of wet-dry 3M
#600 silicone carbide paper. By my way of thinking, using fixed abrasive such as on sandpaper, slightly flattens
and roughs up the bottom most areas of the round polyester filaments uniformally like rough little
footprints to adhere into the film emulsion.
Pat
I know a film chemist that creates a specialized adhesive component that is applied to screen
films to make them bond to the screen for long printing run endurance.
But when I did want to add a tooth to the screen, I just used a worn piece of wet-dry 3M
#600 silicone carbide paper. By my way of thinking, using fixed abrasive such as on sandpaper, slightly flattens
and roughs up the bottom most areas of the round polyester filaments uniformally like rough little
footprints to adhere into the film emulsion.
Pat
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