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David McCall
Celebrity Joined: 1/28/09 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 299 |
Topic: Window glass? Posted: 8/19/09 at 7:43pm |
Have any of you come up with a inexpensive and clever replacement for the glass in windows on a set?
Gels and other thin plastics are hard to get smooth enough.
Plexiglas is expensive
Thin acrylic is fragile
Window screen and scrim don't look quite right.
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TonyDi
Celebrity Joined: 9/13/06 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 325 |
Posted: 8/20/09 at 6:59am |
I take it you've tried the window treatment for weatherizing windows in Winter?? That is the adhesive strip around the windows to which you apply the thin clear film, then tighten by heating with a hair dryer?? Works wonders EXCEPT if there is a lot of vibration then the plastic has a tendency to vibrate too - but then glass could do the same. Although we've used that weatherizing stuff with pretty good success.
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David McCall
Celebrity Joined: 1/28/09 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 299 |
Posted: 8/20/09 at 8:43am |
No, I have not tried weatherizing film. Thanks.
I'll give it a try.
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vickifrank
Celebrity Joined: 9/21/07 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 332 |
Posted: 8/20/09 at 9:53am |
Hi David,
You may try StudioCloth, from my company, Studio Productions, Inc. StudioCloth has many of the good properties of scrim, without many of the bad. Most of the time on this blog, I talk about our main scrim, Chameleon, but StudioCloth is our other scrim product. StudioCloth hangs square, can't snag or run, is inexpensive, can glue and staple, doesn't stretch is about a $1 a sq ft in small sizes or $29 a yard (bolt width is 12 foot, so $29 buys a 12' x 3' piece). People behind your window, will look like they are in the shade of a tree--sort of a dappled shade effect.
For future use...you can print Studio Cloth, so it makes good pictures that come to life.
If you write me (Private Message me) with an address I can send you a sample.
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David McCall
Celebrity Joined: 1/28/09 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 299 |
Posted: 8/20/09 at 10:33am |
I tried to write to you, but your private message limit has been exceeded. Could you try sending me a private message with your email address?
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kries13
Player Joined: 8/12/09 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 18 |
Posted: 8/21/09 at 3:43pm |
I've had good luck with the plexi - but I bought it straight from a local Plastics company so my cost was better cutting out the middle man. Sometimes they even have scrap that I can get even more cheaply.
I've also bought really cheap poster frames in big sizes (like 36 x 40) from one of the big box hobby stores when they have a sale or a coupon in the paper and that has worked well. You can toss the frame or use it for something else.
If you are going to use screws to attach the plastic to your window frame be sure to drilll large enough pilot holes first as this plastic shatters easily. You can also just attach with something butted up or over it (like a wood strip) as opposed to trying to screw into the plastic sheet itself.
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