Re: Breathing Color Glamor II Giclee Varnish
Eric, Do you spray the paper flat on horizontal pegboard? Do you have any specs on the fan you use? Diameter? CFM? Is the fan through the back wall to the outside? Thanks, Jack > From: Eric Neilsen <ejnphoto@sbcglobal.net> > Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca > Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 23:55:11 -0600 > To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca > Subject: RE: Breathing Color Glamor II Giclee Varnish > > 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 > http://e.neilsen.home.att.net > http://ericneilsenphotography.com > Skype ejprinter > >> -----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. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> www.DanBurkholder.com >>> www.TinyTutorials.com >>> >>> >>> > > > > >
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