Buy Impact Screen Fabric Directly from Mill

[dbgolf72]

As a cost sensitive person attempting to build a high quality simulator, I realized purchasing the correct impact screen is critical to both the simulator's overall performance and it's price tag. It should be affordable, durable, seamless, impact resistant, have minimal bounce back, low noise, and display HD quality images.

West Coast Netting, Par2Pro, Foresight, Carl's Place and others listed in various forum threads all sell screens but none actually manufacture them. Buying second hand increases cost and my goal to buy the highest quality materials at the best possible price can only be accomplished by purchasing direct from the mill that manufacturers the fabric.

After plenty of research I found the mill that's manufacturing the impact screen fabric for Foresight, Carl's Place and others. The mills highest quality impact screen fabric is a heavyweight knit polyester sold only in 120 inch x 40 yard rolls. The raw material costs $56/yard without shipping.

40 yards is clearly too much material for my simulator so I'm looking to get a group of us on the forum to split a roll.

Please advise any interest or questions.

[puttcat]

15x10 finished -- ship to Chicago

[SwingLeft]

Is this a one time order you are going to place? The reason I ask is my current screen is not needing to be replace yet, but if it's a on time thing I may need to go ahead and get on board and order a couple for the future. My only concern is if I ordered more than one would be if the quality is not up to par and being a waste of money.

[thaar]

I'd be interested as well for 10x10 depending on overall cost. Thanks for putting this out there!

[Justin General]

+1 for RAW. I think the tarp clips might be the way to go. Should I be concerned about tears? I guess it would be good to know price for larger sizes in case I need to move the material in the impact zone.

[Griffinto]

I'm interested in 10x15. Thank you!

[Bastiaan]

I changed my view and now also think raw is better. What is your view on timing?

[dack]

Brand noob here, and would also be interested. Not sure about size exactly but 10x10 roughly, and raw is fine.

[theizer]

would definitely be interested in 10x15 - raw with tarp clips makes sense to me

[mikelo33]

I'm interested in 15-16 feet raw depending on cost.

[dbgolf72]

Hi everyone and apologize for the delay in posting but I have been gathering a lot of information.

I haven't had a chance to add up the yardage but eyeballing everyone's posts it looks like 3 rolls of fabric

[dbgolf72]

I spoke with the mill and they have only 3 rolls in stock if we buy all three we can get a discount probably $5 off initial price. They also mentioned that in 2 months they are going to release a new model of their premium screen. The difference between the new and the old is that the new one will be finished with a silicone coating that will be more resistant to ball marks by high spin shots. The new one won't be any more expensive in fact it might be slightly cheaper because its knitted in china and only finished(dyed and coated) in the USA whereas the current one is knitted died and coated in the USA. I'd like to hear everyone's input. We don't have to go all or nothing. We can get one roll of the fabric they have now for people who don't want to wait and finish everyone's orders when the new model comes. Or we can go for all three rolls of what they have now. I think both are gonna work fine so I'll go either way I just being straightforward with everyone because you all should be able to get what you want.

[dbgolf72]

Sorry for the multiple posts I keep hitting the reply button too soon. For those who need the fabric finished I looked at a lot of options and i think it makes the most sense for us to use Rosebrand. They are reputable and professional. I got a couple approximate quotes as without the fabric in hand they can't tell me exactly but they want to charge $270 for a 10x10 screen with grommets 12 inch centers and $290 for 10x10 with grommets on 6 inch centers. The same for a 10x15 would cost $310 and $335. They will finish them pack and ship them. Shipping is of course extra but I don't think it should be very expensive. They will also cut and ship raw fabric as well but at $70 per screen seems expensive. Although maybe I can't cut fabric as perfectly as they can I will probably end up cutting raw material and sending it out. So we would ship the rolls for the people who need finished product to rosebrand and ship to me the rolls for the people who want the raw fabric.

[dbgolf72]

Also forgot to mention maximum actual height of finished screens will be 9 ft 6 because they need to gen the edges and sew on the webbing.

[dbgolf72]

Hem* the edges. I will post a list of where we stand with everyone tomorrow so we can finalize it with finished/unfinished current model/new model

[Shifty]

I'm interested in a
15x10 if not too late. I can wait for new batch.

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