Planning An Arizona Meet

Screen printing or offset? The company that I work for is a screen printing company that makes membrane switches and touchscreens.

 

Offset

I worked for a company here in town that produces slitter rewinders, and rotary die cutters. But I also serviced 8+ color Flexco, Mark Andys and everything inbetween. They had a sister company with shops scattered across the country.

Worked alot with Rotary Technologies and there re-registry systems as well, At the time we were installing there systems on the west coast for them and they had a guy for the east coast.

Every once in a while I would get to sit at the shop and wire new presses, build electrical cabinents, and do the QC on new equipment purchases...................... What I was originally hired to do. That lasted all of 2 weeks LOL

 

haha i jus want to restore it totally , i dont care how long its down. it was my dad and my grandfathers car. any where from 0 to 1000$ mostlikely id prefer one where i can just instal it automatically. i can weld quite well, varoius types of welding too. any suggestions on gears anyone? id prefer a 9inch .

 

http://mmb.maverick.to/showthread.php?t=35505

only one thats a drop in really is the lincoln Versailes rear end, all I got to say is good luck finding one of those. I have YET to see one LOL

Personally I would steer away from the 9 inch, I would go with an 8.8 lots in the junkyard already equipted with 3.73 gears and limited slips. Just cut it down to size, new spring perches, rebuild clutch pack, and get some new axles. Go with say a ranger one and then you even have 31 spline axles as well.

If your confident in your welding you should be within your budget from start to finish

Gears suggestions are hard to say without knowing what transmission your running LOL

 

We bought a company at my previous job that had two offset presses. Really neat technology but I didn't have a ton of exposure to it.

 

Yeah alot of cool technology in The Mark Andy's and the higher end Flexco's, then there are alot of other brands that are way slower and barely any technology. The only workers who can operate them are the same guys that have been operating them presses for years.


I was in the gatorade bottling facility in florida for about 6 weeks working on training over a dozen employees on a new Rotary diecutter only about 750 FPM speeds. Very small potatoes compared to what they have in there facility.

But the amazing part was all the Mark Andy presses they ran and just some amazingingly fast presses with all the bells and whistles. All touch screen control panels, hell one guy could operate 3 presses at once! Very cool stuff, I loved just walking around that facility.

And you might enjoy this Tony if you have never seen anything like this before
http://www.bretting.com/

This is where I worked while in high school.

MASSIVE printing presses, log shears, folding, boxing, labeling. These are used by the big boy toilet papper companys, napkins, towels,swifters. These things just spit out product very cool

Huge shop about the size of 10 football fields thats just assembly and manufacturing area LOL

 

Rotary presses are really neat. Our facilities utilize standard steel rule dies and the occasional hard tool. But our quantities aren't nearly that high. Ten thousand pieces is a huge run for us.

Here is a link...see if you can see me in the center of the three pictures. My 15 minutes of fame at the Membrane Switch Syposium! LOL

http://www.sgia.org/events/printed_electronics/10/recap.cfm

 

Very cool


I have only had a brief run in with them types of presses, and we just manufactured a "add on" for there press to rotary die cut, slit, and rewind there product. Kinda funny cause we had a hard time slowing our stuff down to be compatible with the speeds of there press. All our parameters had to be reprogrammed from glitches caused by the slower speeds.

All I know about PSB's are if they look burnt get a new one LOL

 

Just to let everyone know...

~WE ARE 4 WEEKS AWAY from the Desert Maverick Meet/Cruise on Central!~

We have 15 confirmed (many with significant others/passengers/co-pilots) and 5 maybe's. If the weather holds out and nothing catastrophic (like $7 a gallon gas) happens I will see you all then! Meanwhile I will plan on pinging everyone as the day comes nearer.

 

A heads up guys, I was at the good guys show this weekend and ran across a complete yellow grabber. Good clean car some minor body damage but the grabber hood spoiler were in good shape. Car complete with small bumpers and factory bucket seats.

1200.00

I took some pics and grabbed the phone number if anyone is interested.

No one was around the car so I did not get to talk to the owner personally but it was a 928 number meaning northern az prescott maybe even Flagstaff.

 

Quit dangling carrots out there! I'm trying to justify buying a truck and you show up with this!

 

Probably a long shot but I'll ask anyways. If any of you Az guys have or know of a cheap daily driver capable car for sale around $1000 let me know. Its for a friend of mine. He'd prefer a little 4 cyl truck with a manual transmission but if you got something let me know.

Side note, where has Rick been? must be busy with his new job.

 

10 hr days, sun and wed off. get up at 5am and get home 6:15ish. down a few bourbons and its bed time. sorry i have not had time to chime in as i did before, who knows-some guys may like that.

side note; i am new with my shop, i have told them about our car club meets and that they happen on sat. they are ok with it but request a 2-3 week notice. this meet i can not make because the idiots that buy oil for this country are willing to pay insane prices, but im not! cant afford the gas for the trip. maybe next time.

see you in the funny papers!
Rick

 

Must feel good to be back to work again. Maybe when you get your maverick done it will get better gas mileage than your truck when you come up here for the meets.

 

it does! and i have a press, lifts, and all the little goodies at my finger tip when needed.

my only problem is spending the money in my head on parts before i have them. Oh yeah one other issue, that snap on truck always wants money for tools!