the common adhesive that's used out there is called a cyanoacrylate it's kind of like a modified super glue that comes in different viscosities we're going to be using a viscosity that works better for broad range of mesh counts we do carry different viscosities depending on if you're really just mainly ree stretching fine meshes or you're really just mainly stretching course meshes for most screen printers sitting in the middle 300 cps viscosity is probably eighty percent of what folks use out there the glue once it's applied down is instantly hardened with a spray accelerator that's a huge asset in that you don't have to sit there and wait for glue to set up and can let you take down the stretcher to begin the next frame that you might need to stretch so in the square bottle all you're going to do is apply a bead of this adhesive along the frame side and a handy little applicator card we're just using a piece of cardboard to go in and evenly distribute the adhesive out around the frame surface you don't want to have too much glue in that you don't want to apply so much that the glue starts to go down between the frame and the stretcher bar itself in that we don't want to glue the frame to the stretcher older frames contend to have towed in a bit in other words the frame doesn't sit quite flat it's gotten kind of bent in a little bit from the previous screen tension it had on it so there might be instances when you're applying the adhesive that you notice it's contacting at one edge which is usually that outer edge but not as much in the inner edge so a way to be able to fix that and give you better contact over the entire side is simply putting a slight amount of pressure on the screen mesh in the center as you're going in to activate it we're going to stay 12 to 18 inches away and just give the adhesive surface that we put down a couple of sprays it takes very little of this activator to set up the adhesive and give you a solid bond you actually don't want to over spray or use too much in that it will overheat the adhesive in a weaken the bond once we've gone in and and apply the adhesive and activated it it's already hardened to where you want to make sure it's hardened before you go in and touch it but I've done this enough times to where it's probably just a knee-jerk reaction to try to make sure that I'm ready to cut free but once you've done that all you have to do is come along each of the frame sides of course on the outer edge and cut the frame free in that that adhesive bond as i said earlier instantaneously happens so our screen is now complete and stretched at hi tension ready to go to the press and you'll see we're sitting at about 20 to 21 newtons which for most textile applications is going to work so there we've got our stretch screen all ready to go for print production if we have another screen to stretch or we've got somebody doing this for us and they've got another screen to stretch to release the mesh all you're doing is simply coming in pushing down in that locking rod the same feature we've used to make the cross attention as well as soften the corners and so when we go in and push that rod down with our little applicator card it actually drops the rod down into the channel so we can remove it to be able to go in setting in our next piece of mesh after we put our frame in shimmed it up last but not least the ratchet system in the diamond chase roller that sits in these u-shaped channels is unidirectional in other words it's only going to turn one direction for the ratchet to work so we've already turned this roller to a point where we can't necessarily put in another frame and begin stretching again in that we've advanced that roller ways away from where the top dead center was do we start out with so since this ratchet systems unidirectional all we're going to do to start over is put a wrench in we're not having any mesh we're going to turn this roller to where it's going to face back up at a starting point of top dead center and essentially that's where we've got this level even with the actual frame edge itself the u-channel that supports the roller so that that groove is sitting there right at the point where we would be putting the screen mesh in for the next stretch time so that's the diamond chase tension quick stretcher stretching a 20-24 screen they come in a variety of sizes probably the most common we sell is a 24 32 which allows you to do up to a 2331 automatic size frame and it can telescope down as far as a 10 by 10 12 by 12 if need be so it gives you a lot of versatility you