RE: Breathing Color Glamor II Giclee Varnish

[Eric Neilsen <ejnphoto@sbcglobal.net>]

Jack, I just use some thick plastic that I picked up for green house that I
never built in New Mexico and still had it laying around. The frame is 2x4
and the "door" is an old shower curtain stapled to a closet rod. The exhaust
van is an attic fan. I spray onto peg board that has a couple of shelf
bracket pegs to keep the paper at a reasonable position for spraying. I use
a mounted shop light above to provide light and I stand on an old apple box
to get myself a good spray angle. I can get a good spray on prints up to
24x24. I biggest that I have sprayed in there was a 30x30.  



Eric Neilsen Photography
4101 Commerce Street
Suite 9
Dallas, TX 75226
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Brubaker [mailto:jack@jackbrubaker.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 6:48 PM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> Subject: Re: Breathing Color Glamor II Giclee Varnish
> 
> Dan,
> 
> I just sold my BIG spray booth and will now build a small one that has a
> lexan see-through panel from a screen door as the front. It will be hinged
> at the front top of the booth to swing up back out of the way when not
> wanted. It will when vertical leave a 6 to 8 inch gap at the bottom,
> enough
> room for me to reach under it to work with my acid bath or do small spray
> jobs. The back will have a baffle with holes all over it (I will try
> pegboard) to keep the velocity high at each opening and well spread out. I
> hope to get by with a bathroom exhaust fan. 15 years ago I used to have a
> home made booth framed up like a closet and covered with drywall. Built in
> was a benchtop and a 24 inch through the wall fan with closeable louvers
> on
> the outside. The front was about 5 feet wide and had rigid plywood panels
> that could close off most of the front opening. I stood in front of the
> gap
> between panels to shoot paint. I could move to the left or right by
> shifting
> the panels and still keep the front opening small with good velocity past
> my
> head.
> 
> I'd love to hear others ideas.
> 
> Jack
> 
> > From: Dan Burkholder <fdanb@aol.com>
> > Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> > Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:58:14 -0600 (CST)
> > To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> > Subject: Re: Breathing Color Glamor II Giclee Varnish
> >
> > Hey Jack,
> >
> > Yes, we're using an HVLP gun too. Cost $28.95 at Big Lots. We've only
> > lost one print during the spraying process and that was when the WIND
> > blew the sucker off the easel.
> >
> > You and Eric don't have any hot leads on "build your own spray booth on
> > the cheap" resources do you? ;^0
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > Jack Brubaker wrote on 11/28/06, 12:27 PM:
> >
> >> Have you tried the HVLP type spray gun. It does a remarkable job of
> >> lowering
> >> the amount of overspray. Still not something to do without ventilation
> >> but
> >> requires much less air volume to move the contaminants away.
> >
> >
> > --
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> >
> >
> >