New Pledge: T-Shirt heat sealer press

[Charles Yarnold]

Hello all,

Thanks to hipster we now have an even more awesome vinyl cutter for the space, you can see some of its handy work here: https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/74206_10151365950489703_867252738_n.jpg

It can also do T-Shirt vinyl, so all we need to make our own shirts and other fabric items more awesome is a heat press!

We can get one on ebay with a extra mug heat sealer (perfect for xmass gift making) for only £165 delivered. Will only take a few of us chipping in £10-£15 each, who's with me?

http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Pledges/TShirt_Heat_Press

Sol

[Clare Greenhalgh]

Me!!

I pledge £15....

Mother Dragon

[Sam Kelly]

I'm in! £10 from me.

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[Martin Klang]

Have you seen - and felt - the quality of textile print done this way?
If not, I recommend you try it out without the press first, using a regular iron (steam off!).

bestests,

/m

[Martin (Crypt)]

Put me down for £10, although can give more if we're short

[Sam Kelly]

Regarding the mug transfer thing - a look at the technology
involved[1] seems to say we'd need an Epson or Ricoh printer &
sublimation dye inks for it. If there's a hacky way to do this, that'd
be extremely cool, but I wanted to raise a flag that we might be
acquiring a shiny new tool we can't use for the sake of something else
we haven't got.


[1] http://www.themagictouch.co.uk/download/brochures/dyesub_2012.pdf

[Marc]

That's a great idea, put me down for £10 as well.

[Fahad Sadah]

This looks brilliant, £10 pledged

[Tom Sands]

I'll throw £20 towards this, I def want to use it!

Been looking into places to get wholesale things to print. http://www.buytshirtsonline.co.uk/ seems to do blank t-shirts for £1.20 each and hoodies for around £4

[Tom Sands]

On Friday, December 7, 2012 9:39:36 PM UTC, Sam Kelly wrote:

Regarding the mug transfer thing - a look at the technology
involved[1] seems to say we'd need an Epson or Ricoh printer &
sublimation dye inks for it. If there's a hacky way to do this, that'd
be extremely cool, but I wanted to raise a flag that we might be
acquiring a shiny new tool we can't use for the sake of something else
we haven't got.


[1] http://www.themagictouch.co.uk/download/brochures/dyesub_2012.pdf

I've done some googling. Equipment to do sublimation printing would include an Epson S22 (£~40), External ink system for the S22 (£20), Sublimation ink (£40-50 per set), and sublimation paper (£10 for 100 sheets). While it certainly isn't the cheapest thing to get started I believe it is well within our ability. 

[Akbal Randhawa]

I'd like to Pledge £15 I can see me using it.

[jt]

Added a £10 pledge to the wiki

[tim_n]

£10 added

[tim_n]

Isn't it £170? £155+15?

[Charles Yarnold]

Thats great, thanks all.

If you haven't already please add your name and amount to the wiki.

Sol

[Charles Yarnold]

We are only £35 away from our target! http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Pledges/TShirt_Heat_Press

Please remember to add your name to the wiki page if you haven't already.

Sol

On 7 December 2012 21:10, Charles Yarnold <charles...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Tom Sands]

Horray! A sizeable bonus means I'm upping my pledge by £35. Merry christmas Solexious!

[Martin (Crypt)]

Wow thanks, was about to up mine by £10 in the hope that others would, but this is great.

[Charles Yarnold]

Fab, so please pay your pledges into the hackspace bank account (details can be found in the members section of the main site) and use the banking reference: TSHIRT , then mark yourself as paid on the wiki.

Sol

[Akbal Randhawa]

Sol,

Having a problem accessing my account at the moment. Lost my keypad security thingy. So can I pay via card on the donate page? I will add another couple of quid to cover the paypal charges.

Akbal

[Charles Yarnold]

Sure thing :)

[Martin Klang]

In respect of Ben Power's offer of lending us an industrial heat press, is this still on?

/m

[Charles Yarnold]

Personally I would always prefer to own our own tools if its possible, myself I'm still in... 

[Kimball Johnson]

I'm still in too - I want to make custom mugs :)

[Tom Sands]

Won't be able to make mugs till another pledge is run for sublimation printing equipment :(

[Kimball Johnson]

On 21 December 2012 10:46, Tom Sands <itst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Won't be able to make mugs till another pledge is run for sublimation
> printing equipment :(

Oh really? :( What's needed?

Kimball

[Marc]

Won't be able to make mugs till another pledge is run for sublimation printing equipment

True, but meanwhile wouldn't it work if we just adjust the setting of the press for the circumference of a mug and then

use an oven for sublimation?

[Ben Barwise]

Could it be used with press n peel to make circuit boards ? Plastic film onto pcb ?

See the press here www.techniks.com

Or is the process different ?

[Nigel Worsley]

> Could it be used with press n peel to make circuit boards ?

It should work fine for this, but it would probably require a bit of
experimentation with time and temperature.

Nigle

[Charles Yarnold]

A reminder to please pay and mark yourself as paid on the wiki asap: http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Pledges/TShirt_Heat_Press#Pledges

We currently have £60 of £170 paid.

Sol

[jt]

Just paid up, sorry for being late, I have a crap excuse, but won't bore anyone with it.

[Tim Reynolds]

Erk, sorry. Totally missed this. I'll send it across now.

[tim_n]

Hi Sol,

 

Is it possible to drop cash in for this, alternatively I have to find my special bank thingymajig...!

[Akbal Randhawa]

Just paid and put it on wiki had to pay by card via paypal (I actually paid 17, wasn't sure how much paypal takes)

[Mark Steward]

It's 3.4% + 20p, and you should have been able to opt to pay this fee yourself:

  https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/?cmd=_display-fees-outside

Mark

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[Tom Sands]

Mine paid. Sorry for the delay, had to wait for Natwest to send me another crypto pin-pad thingy.

[tim_n]

The paypal link on the dontate page is not exactly perfect for this sort of thing - I couldn't add even the text to indicate it was for the t-shirt heat sealer.

[Mark Steward]

I think you're the first person to mention using Paypal for a pledge - we don't encourage use of Paypal due to their fees and awful customer service.

I've added an issue to Github:

  https://github.com/londonhackspace/hackspace-foundation-sites/issues/28

Mark

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[tim_n]

Apologies, I added a couple of quid for fees etc I can't currently find my pin pad card thingy my bank has supplied me with so can't make bank transfers until I do - since I was holding up the pledge it seemed easier to transfer it with a couple of extra quid to get the ball rolling.

 

Would be easier to add a link which you can specify you pay the fees and add a reference - much easier with paypal (sadly)

[Billy]

You could always go into a branch of Barclays and deposit the cash
directly into the hackspace bank account. Just make sure that you get
the bank teller to include the reference number when you deposit the
cash, otherwise we won't know who it came from.

On 8 Jan, 13:11, tim_n <tim.neob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Apologies, I added a couple of quid for fees etc I can't currently find my
> pin pad card thingy my bank has supplied me with so can't make bank
> transfers until I do - since I was holding up the pledge it seemed easier
> to transfer it with a couple of extra quid to get the ball rolling.
>
> Would be easier to add a link which you can specify you pay the fees and
> add a reference - much easier with paypal (sadly)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 12:34:29 PM UTC, Mark Steward wrote:
> > I think you're the first person to mention using Paypal for a pledge - we
> > don't encourage use of Paypal due to their fees and awful customer service.
>
> > I've added an issue to Github:
>
> >  https://github.com/londonhackspace/hackspace-foundation-sites/issues/28
>
> > Mark
>

> > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:39 AM, tim_n <tim.n...@gmail.com <javascript:>>wrote:
>
> >> The paypal link on the dontate page is not exactly perfect for this sort
> >> of thing - I couldn't add even the text to indicate it was for the t-shirt
> >> heat sealer.
>
> >> On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 10:08:53 AM UTC, Mark Steward wrote:
>
> >>>  It's 3.4% + 20p, and you should have been able to opt to pay this fee
> >>> yourself:
>

> >>>  https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-**bin/?cmd=_display-fees-outside<https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/?cmd=_display-fees-outside>
>
> >> --

[Tom Sands]

SUCCESS!

This thing works and it's cool!

Here's an album of the first creations: http://imgur.com/a/jiOAW#0

[stephane Malenfant]

Cool T-shirts/hoodies! I want one!

Stephane

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[Tom Sands]

I'll be doing an order in a week or two probably, let me know what you want then and I'll tag it on.

I'll make another thread for it though.

[Sam Kelly]

Awesome!

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