Well, you may remember a number of weeks ago when i had to completely tear down, clean out and rebuild the capping station on our Direct To Garment shirt printer. Well, today i walked into the warehouse to discover that the white ink tank (which serves four print heads) had suddenly developed a crack near one of the hose connections and leaked white ink all over the place. Thankfully i noticed before powering up (which pressurizes the tanks, which would have spilled even more ink). White ink is expensive, and it kinda sucks when it spills like this, but it could have been a lot worse.
New tanks are hard to come by and very expensive, so salvaging parts from older tanks (i’ve replaced these before) i did a Largo thing and rigged four new tanks out of four old 250ML ink bottles. Just gotta wait for the silicone to dry :) The suck is that it effed over my shirt printing this afternoon. :(
