From: ken watson (watsok@frii.com)
Date: 02/15/01-09:33:31 PM Z
Hummmm. This is building up to be similar to the Gold Chloride thread. If
you want to coat glass with nitrocellulose try www.cwreenators.com. There
are links here for civil war photography and wet plate process, which I do.
BUT this is the expensive way. You can learn how to pour a plate there
though.
The favorite Alt photo store, Home Depot, sells Nitrocellulose Lacquer in
cans. Check around the paint dept. It is the wrong formula for wet plate
but for coating glass to accept something else it might be OK and it is
cheap.
The trick to keep the lacquer on the glass is to have the glass spotlessly
clean. Some use glass wax, I just use detergent and carefully rinse it all
off, dry the plate without lint and stack them inside Aluminum foil to keep
the dust of until use. If you use plastic wrap it leaves something behind on
the glass.
I suspect if the new aircraft cloth coating material that really shrinks up
during drying will cause it to pop off the glass which does not.
So far I have not heard of any modern wet plate photographers disappearing
due explosion but then this process has only been renewed with numerous
folks doing it in maybe the last 10 years.
..-----Original Message-----
..From: bmaxey1@juno.com [mailto:bmaxey1@juno.com]
..Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 4:04 PM
..To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
..Subject: Re: Coating glass plates
..
..
..>>I have to take some exception to the idea of trying to make cellulose
..nitrate on a small >>lab scale.
..
..I second this. There were lots of manufacturers of the stuff at one time,
..but most got out of making the plastic because of the explosive nature of
..the material. There are better materials.
..
..Bob
..
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