Aluminum frame with slots to attach mesh with locking strips. Locking strips come with frame. Mesh is purchased separately. Mesh is inserted using Alignment Clips purchased separately. Once mesh is in frame, you soften the corners using your finger, and then rotate the rollers to tighten the mesh. All you need is a flat work table, a 5/8 socket wrench and 1-1/4" open ended wrench that any hardware store sells. You should also have a semi-hard pad under each of the 4 corners made from material that is exactly the same thickness. See the video "Screen Printing's Best Screen" for instructions how to insert mesh and why these are by far the #1 frame available to screen printers. With screens other than retensionable, you can stretch mesh to its maximum tension and glue the mesh to the frame, but two hours later the mesh will have lost 25% of the tension. As you print with such screens, you continue to lose tension. Then you experience color registration problems, ink driven into the fabric rather than opaque images, ink build up under screens that needs to be cleaned to avoid ghost or shadow prints, and more problems. We recommend starting with 1-2 frames. Once you use a Newman frame, you will never want to use any other frame. See also videos "Inserting/Tensioning Mesh 1 and 2".
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