Easel trouble

[Nicholas Dellerba]

Anyone know how to keep your easel from moving when printing? I have tried several different brands/kinds and they all seem to slip or move while I'm printing..

 

[Steve Goldstein]

Does it have rubber pads on the back? Many easels do. If yours doesn’t, you could use rubber cement or contact cement to attach some pieces of basic ping-pong paddle rubber.

 

[Nicholas Lindan]

Try:
https://www.amazon.com/Scotch-Bumpe...d=1&keywords=3m+bumpers&qid=1612729682&sr=8-2

Should be available at any hardware store. You want small pointy or rounded bumpers made from a soft plastic. Anything that gives a large flat contact area will just glide around, as you are finding out. Note what we would call 'feet' are called 'bumpers' by the industry.

 

[AgX]

There is a great variety of selfadhesive pads/buttons available, made frome classic rubber up to PVC.

 

[voceumana]

The worst movers that I've encountered were the Ganz Speed-Ez-Els. They were very lightweight and they were not conducive to adding rubber pads--even pads might not have helped because they were so light weight. I just taped them to the baseboard when I used them,

Other than those, I always had rubber pads or bumpers on the back of the easel, and replaced them if they got too hard to work.

 

[ic-racer]

Try:
https://www.amazon.com/Scotch-Bumpe...d=1&keywords=3m+bumpers&qid=1612729682&sr=8-2

Should be available at any hardware store. You want small pointy or rounded bumpers made from a soft plastic. Anything that gives a large flat contact area will just glide around, as you are finding out. Note what we would call 'feet' are called 'bumpers' by the industry.

Welcome back after almost 5 years!

 

[Pieter12]

Tape it in place with gaffer's tape? I had the opposite problem--my Beseler 16x20 easel is heavy and cumbersome, very difficult to move to make fine adjustments to composition. I ended up putting a few strips of teflon tape on the bottom and placing it on a large sheet of 1/4" acrylic.

 

[mehguy]

How so does it move? Is it larger then the baseboard that it teeters off the edge of it?

 

[MattKing]

I buy rolls of rubber shelf liners at the dollar store - they are like this:

https://www.amazon.ca/Tact-Brand-No...+liner&qid=1612734275&sr=8-44&tag=googcana-20

You can use them for your paper cutter and timer as well.
No need to use any sort of adhesive.

 

[Nicholas Dellerba]

Thank you everyone so much!!! So many good ideas. Yes, the flat pads are the worst.