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Hi all--
My collective and I reclaimed some screens a few weeks back, and it went pretty well, but woo! Did we ever get unintentially high off the fumes! We decided later that this is a trip that we would not like to repeat. (It wasn't that intense, but it also felt like we were killing brain cells: no good.)
We were wondering if there were less caustic/more eco-friend alternatives.
I have read through the threads and there seems to be two themes: it's all about the chemicals, and bleach or other household cleaners. Is there anything else? Could we use non-chlorine bleach do you think? What about natural cleansers? Not strong enough? Suggestions? Could we use Dr. Bronner's and then a degreaser (since DB has oils in it?)
Thanks for any input in advance!
My collective and I reclaimed some screens a few weeks back, and it went pretty well, but woo! Did we ever get unintentially high off the fumes! We decided later that this is a trip that we would not like to repeat. (It wasn't that intense, but it also felt like we were killing brain cells: no good.)
We were wondering if there were less caustic/more eco-friend alternatives.
I have read through the threads and there seems to be two themes: it's all about the chemicals, and bleach or other household cleaners. Is there anything else? Could we use non-chlorine bleach do you think? What about natural cleansers? Not strong enough? Suggestions? Could we use Dr. Bronner's and then a degreaser (since DB has oils in it?)
Thanks for any input in advance!
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Re: more eco friendly/less caustic screen cleaners?
Sun, August 13, 2006 - 10:36 PMIf it's only been like <1-2mo since the screens were exposed, you can take them to a carwash and blast the emulsion off using water from a high-pressure wand. Kinda spendy tho, about $3 per screen. But if the emulsion has been on there a long time (months, a year) it's ridiculously hard to get it off this way. -
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Re: more eco friendly/less caustic screen cleaners?
Mon, August 14, 2006 - 11:48 AMi have heard mention of people using Beany-Do (or a name something like that) and Simple Green
has anyone heard of this working?
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Re: more eco friendly/less caustic screen cleaners?
Mon, November 20, 2006 - 7:08 AMFranmar makes soy based environment friendly solvents for most everything envolved in screen printing clean up. Their website is: www.franmar.com/
