Re: exposure lights and re-introduction

Laura - like Tom, I built an exposure unit - a small one with 5 24 inch BL
fluorescent tubes - and it works fine, but is hardly plug and play.

My first gum prints were made with a "sunlamp" (it was a 300 watt Philips
bulb, though I think the current equivalent is the Osram Ultra-Vitalux)
which was hot, and slow compared to the fluorescents, but did the job.
However I've heard of folk on the list who have bought secondhand sunbeds -
these often go very cheaply - and they seem to work fine. Full-sized ones
are a bit big - unless you plan large prints - but smaller ones are made for
facial tanning.

Best wishes

Henry

On 18/8/06 08:55, "Tom Sobota" <tsobota@teleline.es> wrote:

> Ok, Ok, here I go
>
> Judy, you are fatally wrong in ...
>
> Just joking :-) I have also read somewhete that grow lights are not
> good...
>
> Laura, I built recently an exposure unit with 12 Philips 24" BL tubes
> and it works flawlessly. But I have never used metal halide lamps,
> only an Osram Vitalux of the type used for tanning. Nice for smaller
> formats up to 20x25cm.
>
> Anyway my new concoction can hardly be called 'plug and play'. Rather
> it was 'plug and pray'. I built it from scratch.
>
> I bought all the elements in a Madrid store. I think that in all the
> major European cities there are such stores, some of them surely sell by
> mail, but perhaps you could look it up via Internet.
>
> If you know exactly what you want, I could buy it here in Spain and send
> it to you to Iceland.
>
> Bye
> Tom Sobota
> Madrid, Spain
>
> Judy Seigel wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Laura Valentino wrote:
>>
>>> So here's the question: Can someone recommend a supplier of lighting
>>> fixtures in Europe? I want to do gum printing and am thinking about
>>> metal halide grow lights. I need the european standard, 220V/50Hz
>>> preferably with a european plug. I suppose changing the plug is not
>>> too big a deal, so I could also order from the UK, but I'd prefer
>>> something I could just "plug and play". I live in Iceland. You'd
>>> think that in a country where everything is grown in greenhouses that
>>> I could buy these lights here, but nooooo! :)
>>
>> Laura, I think the European-available lights most mentioned are
>> Phillips, "black light fluorescents." I have no experience with
>> something called specifically "metal halide grow lights" but the "grow
>> lights" I tried in the US were lousy. It was long ago & I disposed of
>> them, so I can't say what they were precisely, but they were extremely,
>> even terminally slow, so -- my suggestion is, don't take "grow lights"
>> as a given.
>>
>> Frankly, I'm surprised some European maven hasn't answered your question
>> yet... except it being August maybe they're all at the beach or in the
>> mountains. But now that I've said something, I expect a rush -- make
>> that a STAMPEDE ! -- to correct me.
>>
>> so good luck.... and cheers !
>>
>> Judy
>>
>>
>
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