On Wed, 07 May 2008 01:28:28 +0100, Ned Sneed <nervous_ned@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> On May 4, 7:01 pm, Bert Morris <bertmor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Ned Sneed wrote:
>> > I want to have some barndoors that look like they are made of copper.
>> > What kind of treatment would work for this?
>>
>> > Cheers!
>>
>> > ned
>>
>> Dear Ned,
>>
>> Don't know the show or size of your barn doors in question, but if they
>> are already being/have been built, Krylon spray paint has a full line
of
>> metallic paints of every kind, including copper, gold, silver, etc.
>
> I want to use these barndoors on a four-cell mole light, so I am
> thinking the barndoor might be the size that would fit on a 10"
> fresnel or so...I like the idea of spray paint, but there is the heat
> issue. I will be using the barndoors as a "look" rather than to
> actually shape the beam so there's that. Copper plating would be
> great, but would that be insanely expensive?
>
> Thanks for the replies!
>
> ned
WEll you can do it yourself, but you can just buy roofing copper, make
your own & spray the inner leaf black. Heats not a huge issue with spray
paint.
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