Factory method to paint embossed letters.

[Creighton]

Looks like it was silkscreen. Makes sense, fast and clean. Always have wondered how it was done.

V-44 Silkscreen

Creighton

[dr galaga]

You little devil you.  Oh, sorry, I was looking at your post total!  

Price seems kind of steep.  How much do you guys think this could realistically go for?

[Creighton]

HeHe,
Saw the post number as well :-) It only has value as a collector item. Looks used and not cleaned correctly.
Creighton

[90grad]

Wonder what it would take/cost to have something like that made?  You could give a silkscreener the decals (many of which are common) for the pattern and have them make a silkscreen master.  Of course, I have no idea how this is done and it could cost a gazillion dollars.

[Bob K]

So how would this be used back in the day?  I'm not familiar with silkscreening.

Bob

[Eric]

Probably could take the vinyl decals made by Funtronics and have a screen made.
since the decals are made to the size of the embossed letters.
This would be clamped down somehow whether to the door (laid flat) or the door laid into
a inlay on a screening table or something and the paint pulled across the screen.....
Would be interesting to here from the retired worker on how it was done.
There's a compnay here that restores and screens their machines they use
the reverse in the vinyl letters called a mat decal.
They're Antiquities Vending Company.

Eric

[MoonDawg]

I have one but never used it! Will loan it to anyone willing to learn, then maybe we could keep passing it around?

[Eric]

Glen.. I don't know how... But I would have a paper positive made of that
cause once that screen is gone it would be gone.. A black and white made
from that would be something you could have screens made from again and again..
I would call a screen printer to see how that could be done. It would be simple
as them screening black ink through it to a white poster board. then saving that to
make other screens.
 I worked at a screening company where we made Car signs and all types of magnets.
It was all screening... But it was ink where this would be paint.......

Eric

[Bob K]

This is very interesting...

[dr galaga]

Quote (Bob K @ Sep. 20 2005,8:18)

So how would this be used back in the day?  I'm not familiar with silkscreening.

There's a pretty good picture on this page of silk screening: http://www.acrafab.ca/silkscreen.html

I remember making silk screened t-shirts back in middle school!

[firemun]

I got a buddy that runs a shirt screening company, I will see if I can get him to try a screen  with the "one shot" lettering paint from Funtroincs...it is worth a try I guess.

jeff

[Jim]

A looonnggg time ago...
I attempted this technique and ran into problems with slight bleeding at the edges and difficulty ensuring EVERYTHING is properly aligned while NO movement occurs!

We used to have made silk screens, and then use them for screening water ski's.  It was all in the paint and knowing how to thin it just enough, like a paste.   Silk screen cost about $50.00.  With the skill I have seen many of you show in painting machines, I would believe many of you could learn it quickly.

[Bob K]

Seems like it would work more easily for flat surfaces.  For embossed lettering you would have to position the screen perfectly over the embossing?

I wonder how they do the lettering on the new repop Westinghouse style chests?

Bob

Yes, a flat surface is nice.  The raised surface of the embossing is flat.  I believe that the silk screen frame would have a spacer so that the screen is flat against the raised embossing only.  When the squeege is passed across the silk screen avoid pushing down trying to force it against the recessed surface.  A light pass with the squeege angled at 45 degrees.

[sodaworks]

Did they use a squeege or an ink roller?

All our silk screening was done with squeeges.