Dice
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For those of you who haven't seen it. Vutek has a new LED UV.
http://w3.efi.com/vutek/Products/GS3250LX
http://w3.efi.com/vutek/Products/GS3250LX
Nitrogen? What does it use Nitrogen for?
$750 is way too steep. Getting into FB7500 territory.
i bet that nitrogen story is a lie. what the nitrogen is doing is canceling out oxygen inhibition in the cure cycle. uv curables do not like oxygen. you can take a standard uv glue. put a black light over it. no cure. now let some dry ice pour it's vapors over the uv curable glue and bam. that glue will cure like it was hammered with a powerful bulb.
You need to do like any smart business person and take files and lots of them to a dealer and have them demonstrate one for an entire day and make sure it does everything you want or expect it to do. Do this with the same files with all of the distributors and then make decisions. All of us have a certain amount of sentimental value connected with our machines and want to feel we've made excellent decisions, so we recommend them. What works for us or someone else on this site, might not be your cup a tea.
It is good advice, albeit one I would toss into the "common sense" dept.
Wanted to thank all you guys for the input. Funny how things come around, we actually just pulled the trigger on another FB 700. Crazy! After much discussion we decided that to step up to the OCE or Agfa right now may not be enough 1-2 years down the road, and like Mike said none of what we were looking at were actually production machines.
So, We took the advice of keeping something in line with out current workflow, not having to do profiles for another machine, etc. was a big plus for us. We've only been open for about 8 months so we are still getting our processes ironed out, to throw another new machine in the mix is just too much right now. We'll stay this course for a year or so and see what new technology comes out, how we grow etc. That said if anyone has questions on the FB feel free to ask...we're becoming pretty in tune with it.
Anyway thanks 101! Have learned so much on on here the last year or so!
artbot952365 said:i bet that nitrogen story is a lie. what the nitrogen is doing is canceling out oxygen inhibition in the cure cycle. uv curables do not like oxygen. you can take a standard uv glue. put a black light over it. no cure. now let some dry ice pour it's vapors over the uv curable glue and bam. that glue will cure like it was hammered with a powerful bulb.