Finding a deal on a sliver screen

[JGoldenRRP@xxxxxxx]

Eddie wrote
>>Also, I read somewhere that silver spray enamel on a flat >>surface will do
the trick as a screen. Is this true?  I know >>that it's not the  recommended
method, but blowing all my >>money and not being able to eat is probably not
>>recommended, either.  Does this indeed work?  

Eddie,
you probably read Bob Mannle's suggestions for silver screen
manufacturers...and I found that to be great info. I prefer smooth sliver as
well....but use a ribbed 70 x 70 da-lite most of the time.
One place that you may want to look to find a screen.....not in thrift
stores....or at the fleas....or surplus sales....is estate sales.
Now I don't know what goes on where you live....but I have been to many
estate sales out here in Boston....and I find smaller ribbed sliver screens
all the time 40 x 40 or 48 x 48....and typically get them for 1 to 10 dollars
a piece....and wont pay more for them than that.
The "hard core" estate sale regulars are not looking for silver screens out
here....they want jewelry, fine furniture, paintings, cameras (once in all my
estate sale ventures have I ever found stereo stuff....a beat up old Red
Button....thats it!)....and that stuff, more often than not, got rifled out
to relatives and people with early "ins" to the goods....but thats the way of
the world.
But try an estate sale....when you go in the door.....go right to the
basement or the attic....thats where I usually find them, and nobody wants
them as far as I can see.  Good Luck...Jon Golden


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