hey everybody its Matt with Mikey Designs & Silk Screen
and today what I'm going to show you is how to take a screen like this that's
been used in production and I'm going to show you how to reclaim it and so that
way you can use it again for another job yeah I'll take you step by step and show
you how to reclaim it okay so let's zoom in and take a
close-up at what we got going on here okay okay everybody here we are at the
washout boot the first step you want to do is remove your screen take this water
go ahead and toss it away now that you got your screen tape off you want to
take your ink wash and go ahead and hose your frame down and your screen on both
sides apply a generous amount
I'm gonna leave my masking tape there just and why here love it now I'm gonna
take my heat brush my dedicated eating brush I'm gonna give it a bit of a rinse
here just in some of the ink out I'm gonna scrub the frame edges and the
frame nuts down
right let the egg wash giveth job and right now me the inks uh can be washed
now I'm gonna go ahead and rinse off the ink
we have to excuse the noise in the background we've got a garage shop and
you work during the day sometimes you're your neighbors have you know a
reroofing roof job going on next door door so anyways so I'm gonna go ahead
and this is my motion we're going to go ahead and hose this down real good I
want to put a generous amount I could use a little more you mulciber in my
bottle but when they get work for this video okay now I'm gonna take my motion
remover breath
the other side now I'm not playing applying a whole lot of pressure is
really letting the most remember disgust you'll notice on the edges premier your
scoop cutter that there be a little more build-up so you have to work those areas
one more
I think my masking tapes just falling off now okay now we're going to take our
power washer and work from the inside but normally you got your buildup of
emulsion on the garment side we're gonna start from the inside start at the
bottom and work our way up it's that way if you start at the top you would rinse
all your emulsion and remover off not allowing it to sit there and work at it
so we're gonna start at the bottom
remember to get your frame at the studio
I'm going to flip it around get the other side of rent the time to run from
the top cause rolling the rinse it out now
okay now it's nice and washed out we're going to take a little bit of degreaser
here I don't have spray ball for this so I'm just going to go ahead and pour it
on
I'm gonna take my dedicated brush get a little bit of water environmentally
friendly chemicals that are drain safe and septic safe so now I'm gonna go
ahead and blow this out
last but not least I'm gonna give it a good shower what you want to do is give
it a good cheating of water so that way you're getting all the chemicals off
the battery rinses the better chance you're going to have no chemical paint
on they're not having any problems when it comes to putting motion on your story
okay we're all rinsed off and now it's ready
to put it to some kind it's ready it's time to put it into the dry grip okay
let's go okay so that's how you reclaim the screen I put the screen in this
drying rack and I hope that was helpful to some of you out there some of you
screen printers or maybe even planes coming to my site just wondering how
screen printing works and maybe this will give you a glimpse into what it all
takes to to screen print your t-shirts so if you have any questions feel free
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