 We use three techniques to sublimate on trucker hats and we'll show you how we did it right now What is up welcome back? Do you like to do it building or make it? Great, you should subscribe because that's what we do here. Oh hit that bell because we have a new video each Week this week. We had a request from our friend Mike on how to sublimate on trucker hats So in true Kim and Garrett fashion. We're taking it way too far So we're going to show you lots of different well a few different techniques on a lot to different hats We got some high polyester count hats We got some cotton hats that we put Dipressed poly-tion And then we have some cotton hats that we sprayed with acrylic spray paint We ran a test on a t-shirt using each technique. We'll show you a close-up and how they each looked On our test fabric. Let's see how they look on the hats. Yeah So we'll start with putting our images in Microsoft Word and we'll print them out on our a sub sublimation paper using our epsin artisan 1430 printer that was converted with a continuous ink system. I'll show that right here So let's go ahead and print those out And we'll start with the next step Cut the images we're all set All right, let's just cut them for our hats. We're going to cut them up so that they fit on the hats So we'll start with what we think is The least likely to work this acrylic spray We read a lot of stuff that folks say it'll work for the sublimation, but we're going to try it out We'll see how that works. I'm not sure all right, so first hat will be Our Kim and Garrett make it logo On Garrett's flat bill using the acrylic spray Do you want to tape this on you think? Yeah, we'll get it on there Let me do a pre-press 15 second pre-press at 375 That was a fast 15 seconds That's man for you so patient That's how we measure my 15 seconds All right, I think I've got that Tape it down All right fingers crossed 70 seconds. All right, let's see how it worked Not so great. Looks like it wanted to go We're having that same issue too tight too much pressure. No, it's not hitting in the crease So what can you put in there to help with that crease? I think that's gonna have Well, it's not gonna happen on these but it is gonna happen on any of these with a seam The seam I'll still wear it. You will not All right, let's try this one. This one has a seam too Do you want to try to put it like a let's not try? Yeah, let me think of something like I saw somebody suggest All right, we had issues with the seam on that one so We're gonna try to plan for the seam on this one. We cut out these two silicone pieces I'm gonna leave a gap So we're finding that the hats with the seam in the front Want to crinkle when you press it they wrinkle inside Even if you pull it tight All right, I don't think we're gonna do this one Because we can't get Can you see the wrinkle in there no matter what we do to try to press it? There's a wrinkle So we know it's going to turn out like that But the acrylics seem to take to the material cotton fairly well All right, let's see this one will straighten out. See they've got that crazy hump in there I hear you Oh, no, no, I can see it. Look Oh, wow, that's bad These must need to be these hats don't work What do we get? But these hats should be okay. There's no seam. No seam. So these hats should be fine. We got these off of amazon, right? Yep, pretty cheap five or six bucks each. We'll do a pre-press Don't look like anything happened. Two person job. Yeah, that's a two person job So it works great But you got to get that even pressing pressure. Yeah, let me go that way All right, worked okay. I think we need more pressure Oh You guys haven't done it yet. You guys should check out the do-it-projects channel over there with simon and anders That one turned out pretty good All right, now we're gonna do shenanigans hat. So this weekend is st. Patrick's day All the shenanigans shenanigans was too long Uh, it was too long for our press all right, so You got some lessons done All right, I'll see if I can get close enough for you guys to see I don't know if you can see it but there when you pre-press it it wrinkles the hat And I think it's because of the shape of the front of this thing has an extra hump right here in the front Which is just causing the wrinkle now unless I can put All right, so let's try something else here Just an idea A little bit right there a little bit right there See if we can get that to do give us any extra cushion. Oh snap one looks good And now it came out good I'm impressed. All right, that is the uh That's this poly-t stuff Oh, that one came out good. Yes. It's too hot for my head. No do it Looks good. Would you wear that? I'd wear that Would I wear that? Yeah, you'd wear that Looks good All right, let's try the other poly-t one now All right, put that on Or do you want to try the try the acrylic one again? Yes, we've got some little cushion. So what we did was we put a little um polyester Wine wine ass holders wine koozies and because they're small we gave it a little more Like pillowy cushion underneath of that and I think that helped So Definitely some lessons learned here Ready? Yeah, that's a little crooked. You see that? It's a plunder handle Uh, no it looks good. It just was not it didn't get in far enough Tacos is too low. Same thing happened to shenanigans Logos are too big All right, it came out pretty good, but our logo was too big Hey, not bad. Uh, logo is a little big. All right lesson learned. I made all the logos too big All the logos are a little too big. What happened is We measured the bottom pad to make sure the logo covered this bottom pad We should have measured the top pad where the heat's coming from lesson learned There you go All right, so to wrap things up here's well if you like that burnout look, but it does work A little faded a little faded. That's that burnout look. Uh these polyester hats worked great They had a nice flat surface So they had the cushion and they had a nice smooth surface to put the Sublimation ink on worked great and then these last two The poly T chemical Spray was excellent The colors are nice and sharp the challenge with these And the challenge with all of them and this hat press is this seam down the front It doesn't give a nice a very smooth surface So we found that little extra cushion We put some foam kind of thing underneath of it to give a little extra cushion and that helped but the spray The spray is excellent That's it. That's our collection of hats. All right. 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