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What about this? http://www.dalesway.co.uk/vastex_v1000.htm

Does anyone know anything about daleway and or vastex

What did you encounter with Dave ropers customer service to make you unable to recommend it Justin? Never dealt with them myself but come across the name a few times when looking into screen print as an option.

Just my humble opinion - i'd buy a heavy duty carousel, second hand, off ebay and take it from there. The majority of companies/people buying new kit, that haven't screen printed before, end up putting the same kit up for sale a few months later, as they don't get along with it, or realise they're out of their depth - just look at all the second hand gear on ebay, there's loads.

You don't need micro reg, it can come in handy, but it's not necessary - its all about setting the stencil up in the right place on the screen and getting the position on the carousel, bang on, before you put any ink on - this comes with practice. If you haven't printed before - it'll be a good few years before you're doing full colour sets - its a big learning curve.

I have 2 carousels, one with micro, one without - the one with the micro is never used and is busy rusting away in the garage - lol

the platten is only a bit of MDF.
easy to cut out of scrap wood / kitchen units or whatever

remember that you have to thread over the platten, so large size means cannot thread small T's

Thats very true. So ideally i want a set up with interchangable plattens. Im seriously considering buying the vastex v1000 1/6 table top. It comes in at just over 2k. It is a lot more than i wanted to pay but you get what you pay for. I have researched this carousel and although it is not as good as the v2000. It is still a really good quality carousel and hold registration brilliantly. I am looking at the 1/6 table top configuration because CMYK halftone is something i would really like to offer. This is possible woth a1/4, but that set up completely throws chances of printing on any other colour that white straight out the window. I understand that having more that one platten arm is best for productivity, but as 2k is already over what i wanted to pay, I just cant push for it. Not only that, but i dont think the table top version comes with more plattens. This is my thinking... I'll be working with waterbased inks (for many reasons that i wont do into) and process inks. Process inks are fine because they are printed wet on wet so the need for extra plattens is redundent. I am researching wet on wet techniques for waterbased inks which looks very promising and actually intelligent. With this in mind.. do you all think this would be a sensible purchase considering all of the above and the fact that this would used in a low capacity initially. Also when the time comes that an upgrade is essential. I plan to buy something like the v2000 and keep the 1/6 v1000 with great registration, as a CMYK carousel as 1 platten is all you need for cmyk (sure you can use more plattrnd but can only put down one colour at a time so production would not benefit all that much) .....there. im finished lol

Hi all,

Strike the v1000. That a no go lol. Looking at a Riley Hopkins Junior 2/6 for just over 2k. Considering the above minus the v1000. Does this make sense?

Thanks guys. Really appreciate the input