Hackaday Screen Printed T-Shirt on the Cheap
by yeltrow in Craft > Fiber Arts
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Hackaday Screen Printed T-Shirt on the Cheap
Get Your Supplies
- 1/2 * 1 1/2 pine (2 x 12.5", 2 x 15")
- #8 x 3/4 Sheet metal screws (8).
- A staple gun.
- A piece of window screen.
- 3M 77 Spray adhesive.
- Flat black spray paint (DEMKOTE)
- Cordless Drill
- 1/8" Drill Bit
- 1/4 Hex driver bit (for my screws)
- Compressed Air (to clean the screen after spray painting through it).
Cut Pieces for Your Screen Frame
Drill Pilot Holes for Your Screws
Screw the Frame Together
Staple the Window Screen to the Frame
Stick the Paper to the Screen and Cut Out Your Image
Spray Paint the Shirt
I have set the screen directly on the shirt and I had a slight grid patter from the screen. I have also elevated the screen with 4 washers (one at each corner), and I didn't have any grid showing. I think both results look pretty cool.
I have found that spraying the mask with paint thinner allowed me to blow the excess paint from the screen after painting through it. I did some impressions, let the paint dry a few days, and then did more impressions with cleaning screen. I think the dried paint from the first days use probably acted as adhesive and kept the stencil from falling off when I spritzed it with paint thinner. Having done this, I would recommend doing the first impression, letting it dry, and then doing the others with occasional cleaning. I have taken 18 impressions from my screen. Had I cleaned it earlier, I think the later impressions would have had more paint go through. The other thing I have considered is thinning the paint before spraying. This might allow deeper penetration of the paint. Still at $3.58 for the shirts and nothing for the screen, this was a very cheap project.
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