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One of ‘those’ days!
👿 It’s taken me ALL DAY to weed & apply logo’s/names etc to 11 polo shirts. The stuff weeded beautifully, but getting the carrier to loosen it’s grip was another matter. Each shirt must have been in the press about 6 times. Just finished the last one thank God!
Anyway, that’s my whinge for the day! Good night all 😕 -
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What were you using?
I’ve had this problem once with some poli-flex neon pink, it just would’nt come off and ruined several t-shirts, just wondering if there are ever ‘bad batches’!
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Hi Lee, Grafiflex PU. Grafityp were very helpful, seems I was using too much pressure (!) , light pressure helped, and reducing time from 15 seconds to 10, but was still not easy, haven’t a clue why.
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Lorraine, I think you should go home and have a nice glass of wine and chill after a day like that! 😀
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No chance Marcella, I’m off to my ‘other’ job in 😮 50 minutes! Good grief, got to get home & changed yet, my shift starts at 7!
Gotta go! I’ll possibly be back on later though, seeing as we have internet access at work! -
you deserve a medal Lorraine! You must be knackered doing 2 jobs.
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I was thinking that as well Marcella, Just make sure you don’t make yourself ill Lorraine with all the work. Do that and you won’t be able to do either of your jobs.
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Thanks Lorraine, that might have been my problem, i’ll remember that next time although it has only happened on neon pink!
Now get to work!! 😀
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Just finished my visits, just got paperwork to catch up on, then time for supper and wait for visit requests to roll in!
I’m hoping for a quiet night as I have a load of text to type (brought my laptop in!) ready to cut to apply to model bombs etc, trouble is, they all have to be in German, and it’s (a few!) years since I did German at school! -
what time do you finish Lorraine, and what time will you start your other job? 😮
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Hi Marcella. I finish here at 6am, home for 6.30, crash till 8-ish, rush round showering etc, get Ross to school for 9, meeting a client at 10 at their premises, going to another client to put some vinyl dots over the exposed screws on their signs we put up a while back(and forgot the dots 🙄 ). I will then get to the bank, and probably go home and crash for a few hours.
When I wake up I shall probably have a glass (or two) of wine! (I will probably wait a few minutes though, wouldn’t want you to think I’m an alkie or anything, vino for breakfast….
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Hi Loraine, enjoy the few precious moments of sleep. I will never complain again about the lack of it!..that’s some schedule….. 😀 😀
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Lorraine, not really any of my business but you really should be careful working two jobs like you are, especially as your partner is working as well. I wouldn’t want to see you make yourself ill because then you can’t work at all and your family suffers more than just financially.
Like I say not really any of my business but having made myself extremely ill through overwork and knowing what it is like I wouldn’t want to see it happen to anyone else. -
Hi Martin, thanks for your concern, I do get Friends telling me frequently to slow down (I should be stick-thin if life were fair!) but even before I had my own business I worked days and nights, two, sometimes 3 jobs, although then they were all Nursing.
I was a bit of a career woman until we moved to Norfolk, when we decided to slow down 🙁 . Obviously this didn’t work, I just decided not to advance up the ladder. Ross, my youngest, was only a toddler then though, so I only worked part-time.I have been listening though, and realised that once we move into the pub were buying I won’t be able to cope with everything, so I have given in my notice here
(chat.) Trouble is, that this probably will mean the end of my nursing career, which I am quite worried about. I like my job.
Can’t have everything though.
God, look at me spouting off. Must get this typing job done!
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Well I just have the one job, but I am still sat here at the moment designing and emailing quotes. I will probably leave in an hour though which means I should be home for 2am. My boys wake up at 6-6.30am and I always find 4 hours sleep is fine for me, but I do prefer 6 😀
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quote Vale 46:I always find 4 hours sleep is fine for me, but I do prefer 6 😀i aim for 6 too, but not always possible… 😕 :lol1:
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Rob I don’t know how you do it, you have the longest days ever, at least my busy schedule is only once a week, you are doing ten things at once every day.
I survive best on 8 hours kip, by tomorrow night I will be as grumpy as hell. (hot) -
quote Robert Lambie:quote Vale 46:I always find 4 hours sleep is fine for me, but I do prefer 6 😀
i aim for 6 too, but not always possible… 😕 :lol1:
😮 – I need 8 hours or I don’t function! I couldn’t survive on such little sleep. I don’t know how you lot do it!
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I normally start around 6am. I try to close the shop about 5ish but that rarely happens. Most of the time I manage to get home about 1 in the morning.Cheryl sees that little of me she’s suggested registering herself as a one-parent family! 😀
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I always find that polo shirts need more pressure rather than less, as the flex needs to get right down into the material to give it a good bond, but never had any of the problems you seem to be having, what temperature do you press at?
I find 160 for flex is best for 10 seconds, that’s 10 degrees more than the recommended but I get the best results that way, I then repress all the shirts for 5 seconds per logo/area to get a good bond.
The only shirts I ever had back were some polo’s where the guys Mrs had tumbled dried them on such a high setting it had curled the edges but that wasn’t our fault anyway.
we still re did them but else thats the only problem we ever had. -
I’m usually up at 6:30am, answer my emails, get to work at about 7:30am and go home from the office about 6:30pm, work till about 11:30pm most nights from my home office. I do that 6 days. On sunday I spend with the wife and kids till about 2pm, then I go back to the office till about 5pm getting ready for monday.
Problem I have is that when the wife talks me into a day off, I get bored very quickly. I’m not into walking around the shops, I’m on a diet so I can’t eat anything that I enjoy (never seen a calorie I don’t like) and my phone never stops anyway….
That’s why I have decided if I have a holiday, I have to leave the country. No one can talk me into doing a rush job then :lol1:
That said I’m think Rob, Lorraine and others here have much better stamina than me. I don’t know how Rob goes with so little sleep especially.
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quote Steve Underhill:I always find that polo shirts need more pressure rather than less, as the flex needs to get right down into the material to give it a good bond, but never had any of the problems you seem to be having, what temperature do you press at?
I find 160 for flex is best for 10 seconds, that’s 10 degrees more than the recommended but I get the best results that way, I then repress all the shirts for 5 seconds per logo/area to get a good bond.
The only shirts I ever had back were some polo’s where the guys Mrs had tumbled dried them on such a high setting it had curled the edges but that wasn’t our fault anyway.
we still re did them but else thats the only problem we ever had.I press at 150 c (recommended), was 15 seconds, reduced to 10, then back under when peeled for 10 to get into the fabric. Light pressure did help, although not entirely, still had some problems getting the carrier off. I have had this problem before, only not so severe, don’t know what went wrong yesterday 👿
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Lorraine some carries like to be taken off when hot, some when cold, I actually find it better to press some Dibond over the logo for 2-3 secs after heating, then peel off the backing works with any vinyl I have used.
Wurth a try.
Cheers
Dave
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Six hours is plenty.
Sleep is just practising to be dead.
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Hot peel is usually for ultra cut or similar, the tough stuff you can wash at 90 degrees.
flex is usually cold peel, I usually wait till flex is either cold or just slightly warm and it comes off no problem.
seems like a strange problem.
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