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To update from a previous question here in case anyone looks - i was trying to find a company to do small runs of screen printing on hoodies. I can't recommend http://www.shirtysomething.com/ enough. Apparently run by a group of ex touring metal musicians, the service was exceptionally friendly and helpful, going out of their way to help me, editing my image to help me understand their point etc, just fantastic and the end results are flawless, better than hoped. So yeah, if you want a few t-shirts/hoodies/other things printed you did go to them.

.....would love to see your design if you can post - sounded special!

Unable to Google fu my way to answer:

How much do Kew Garden members pay for access to the Christmas lights trail?

The 2nd not shouldnt be there and hence you can drop it off at a Post Office or a CSP which is the local Delivery Office where you collect your packages if you receive a red slip.

bigdaddywayne recommended them to me, and they've since sorted me out numerous times. Pleased someone else has had a good experience with them.

Cheers, several typos makes sense as an explanation.

Ha, won't mean anything to anyone else but this is what we arrived at...

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I have 16 empty pots and would like to end up with 16 shades of paint from white to black

I could combine 15 drops of white in the first, 14 in the second, 13 in the third along with 0 drops of black in the first, 1 in the 2nd, 2 in the third etc

Is there a better way to do this?

If you can accurately control the drop size then it's a similar process to commercial paint mixing. I can't think how it could be easier but I would probably use a syringe and measure the paint in ml.

Slightly more elegant if you can find an additional 'zeroth' pot.

Then that pot (0) is white, your last pot (16) is black and there are 15 blends, each with 16 drops. The middle pot (8) is 50/50 white/black. Pots 4 and 8 are 75/25 mixtures.

Yeah, I thought about halving it each time, but I'd end up with 17 pots. Not that that particularly matters.

But with 17 (or generalising, (2 to the x) +1 pots), you can avoid drops entirely and just derive all the blends from 50/50 mixtures of other blends.

I'm not actually claiming this is any easier, but it is far more elegant mathematically ;-)

I'm not sure how well this will work. The paint mixing people use different base paint depending on the final colour which you aren't. If nothing else I don't think the mix will be very linear.

Would love to see the results.

Its for a art project, so will be using poster paint to test. I think i will try the chez_jay method.

will report back

Wow, yes, that is no regular screen print. My brain is bending thinking about the number of screens involved. Congrats on making it happen, will keep Shirty Something in mind for future!

Many, many screens.
Screen printing was my fave medium when I was doing Art Foundation. I managed to do some blue/green fades - but nothing anywhere near as complex as that.

I got hit in the face with a football yesterday and my glasses helpfully took the blow

Amazingly, they are mostly fine, however one of the arms came off - but thankfully, it just seems to have slipped off the pin at the hinge, so can be slid right back on

What's the best glue for fixing it back in place? I have a tube of e6000, would that do the job?

Ah, sorry if i was misleading - whilst this was the original design for the reasons you've both identified it had to be simplified for screen printing - the text ended up being block neon blue with a white outline. Still absolutely thrilled with the result and the service shirtysomething gave to get us there...

Similar request to ACRe19, could anyone recommend somewhere to repair acrylic frames? The frames in question are very delicate, so would require an almost invisible fix.

superglue?

If it's acrylic then, as salato says, superglue.
ETA - if you are able to pin it mechanically - in addition to the superglue - then so much the better.
ETFA - Oh - and don't use accelerator on the superglue. The price you pay for a faster bond, is a weaker bond.

I was thinking that but was concerned that there isn’t much surface area in the profile of the rims for the glue to purchase? I was wondering if there was some high-tech acrylic welding/melting?

I’ll try gluing the lens into the frame and the broken piece of frame to the lens.

Hence the suggestion to pin the joint mechanically. It isn't particularly easy to do, but it can be done. Are you anywhere near SE London?
Also, be careful of using superglue near the lens. The glue can bloom, and render the lens cloudy.

Afraid not. I don’t have the hand or the tools to pin it.

I hadn’t thought about gluing the lens in and then broken piece to lens before, but I think that’ll work.

high-tech acrylic welding/melting?

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