Hi Techneters,

This questions is mostly geared towards the small manufacturers that does
not use that much paste, but all comments are welcomed.  Most manufactures
recommend you store your paste in a refrigerator and keep the temperature at
32-50°F.  We do this, but since we do not use that much paste, we will open
a jar and apply the required amount of paste on our stencil.  Our biggest
production amount only requires us to apply paste to our stencil maybe twice
or three times a day.  I was told by an outside source that once we open the
jar of paste we can not put it back in the refrigerator.  One reason they
said was we are exposing the paste to the air and once this happens you need
to use the paste ASAP.  That's a problem for us since we do not use that
much to begin with.  Currently, we will open the jar and take what we need
and then put the jar back into the refrigerator, it may be two days before
we need to use the paste again.  How do the small shops handle their paste?


Thanks in advance,

Jim West

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