Cincy active-wear and other pressing news

[vwtype53 at yahoo.com (Ben Harder)]

Brett,

  Can't wait to see the new design!  I'm sure it is sweet.
Count me in for at least one Medium.  ;)

See you in one week!

Ben


--- Brett Van Sprewenburg <brett@netacc.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hey, good news!  I carved up enough time (read: up-until-4am-twice) 
> to put together a design for
> another Cincy shirt this year - I'd hate to break the tradition.  :-)
> 
> I think just about everyone will recognize the memorial / nostalgia 
> in the 6 color back graphic....
> you'll just have to wait and see!  I ordered about 80, with a mix of 
> some smalls, medium, larges,
> x-larges, and a few xx-larges...seeing as how this was nicely over 
> $1,000 on my joint credit
> card...please allow me to continue living when I come home and face 
> the wife, so please buy them all.
>    :-)!!!  (btw, no profiting made here, just cost recoup)
> 
> I was not able to re-order last years design due to the  high restart 
> costs, so I'm going to be
> seeking out another company for low volume production (they're all 
> about the same once you
> start to hit 70+ in volume with 4+ colors, front / back design on a 
> high thread count tagless
> tshirt).
> 
> However, I'll bring extras of the 2001 and 2003 shirts that I still 
> have.  Once I locate a
> low-volume producer (maybe Zazzle if I don't mind releasing the 
> designs to them), I'll see
> that the  highly coveted 2002 "Sidewinder" design goes into 
> production again. :)
> 
> 
> In other news, I used my cheap Chinese 12 ton Harbor Freight press to 
> slam home a new
> pside motor mount in an extra bracket - it made scary noises and I 
> stood off to the side
> while really pushing hard down on the jack handle.  I only shattered 
> one piece of metal
> while doing this job - now you know why I wasn't standing in front of 
> it.  Note to self:
> some solid looking pieces of metal, well, aren't really when you 
> really press them hard.
> 
> Another note:  you can use a sturdy 3.25 inch hole saw with the teeth 
> ground off as a recess,
> riser, and brace for getting a nice "square" press into that blasted 
> pside mount bracket. This
> may be hard to visualize, but if you ever try this yourself, you'll 
> know *exactly* what
> I'm talking about.  Imagine: pushing a new mount into the 
> bracket...where does the old
> one go as it's being forced out and no, that was not the piece that 
> broke...(I wanted to keep
> the old steel ring mount intact as a pressing piece, that's why I 
> didn't just hack it out).
> 
> Tomorrow is mount changing time hopefully.
> 
> ==Brett
> 
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