>
>
> A Meyer bar is a stainless steel rod that has been tightly wound with
> stainless steel wire. It is used in the same way as a glass rod in that
> a pool of whatever it is you are coating is pushed along and spread by
> the bar.
>
> With a Meyer bar it's easy. You just press as hard as you like as it is
> the space between the turns of wire that determines the coating
> thickness - it is more or less independent of pressure or speed.
> coating.
>
> For anyone who is interested, the company in England making Meyer bars
> is:
>
> R K Print Coat Limited, Litlington, Royston, Cambs. SG8 0QZ
> Telephone: +44 1763 852 187 Fax: +44 1763 852 502
>
> Regards,
>
> Dennis Atherton
>
sure wouldn't use a metal bar to coat platinum/pallafium
emulsions, would think you are inviting disaster.
John