Re: Cardboard mounts and projecting

[P3D Dr. George A. Themelis <fj834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doctor Dave writes:

>If I was to do this again I would have to remove the
>fold-overs and mount the Albions in glass.

I have mounted all my public projection slides (Detroit, PSA) in glass. 
Not only it keeps the slides flat in projection but it also protects them
from handling.

>Mounting the Spicers in glass won't work because they are
>too thick then --- unless you use only one piece of glass. I happened
>to have some old EMDE glass binder frames lying around so I tried
>putting in a Spicer mounted slide and a single piece of glass and it
>fit like the proverbial glove.

I have seen regular cardboard heat-seal slides in glass and sealed with
tape.  When you say they are too thick, I presume that you tried and could
not put the binder over?  I think they used to sell a special kind of
thinner glass to use with cardboard mounts.  The Spicer mounts are thinner
than heat-seal cardboard.

>I can now set up a mounting jig (Joel I'm still waiting) for the
>Spicers and go through all my slides like an assembly line. 

Why not try the Albion alignment method as I have been doing?

>By the way, if Dr. T is still counting I now have eleven 36 exposure
>rolls from the NSA Convention and trip home (Woodland Park Zoo, Point
>Defiance, Mount Rainier, etc.) waiting to be mounted. Add that to the
>12 rolls waiting from my previous trip to DC and I will have over 600
>pairs to mount. It shouldn't take me more than a few hours - every
>night - for a month or two. And there were people complaining about
>mounting one or two rolls!!! *{:-)

A month to mount 23 rolls?! :-) I will have my 13 Chicago rolls tomorrow
and will mount them by the end of the week, before my trip to Greece.  The
30 or so rolls from that trip will be mounted in less than a week. 
Mounting is fun, fun, fun!!!

-- George Themelis


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