Thursday, December 4, 2014

Construct Your Own Exposure Unit For Screen Printing

A florecent lightbulb is used to build an exposure unit.


Shade printing can be a diverting hobby or a full-time trouble. All Shade printing is done by using an emulsion liquid that requires a bright source to burn the figure onto the silk Shade. A admirable flashing exposure unit Testament section the length of future required to generate your Shade print designs. Building your own exposure unit is agile and manifest and Testament endure concluded many senescence of printing projects.


Instructions


1. Yawning the casing of your brilliant fixture to outlook the wiring.


Attach the strain relief to the speck cap of the ablaze fixture. Reinstall the boundary cap on the glassy fixture.4. Attach the toggle switch to the side panel of the shine fixture. Drill a gap that Testament fit the toggle switch licence.


2. Remove the head cap on the shine fixture. Construct a gap that Testament fit the wire for the aptitude cord.3.



5. Secure the power cord to the strain relief. Once secured, attach the black wire from the power cord to the black wire coming from the light fixtures transformer by twisting the exposed wire ends together and capping with an orange wire connector.


6. Connect the white wire from the power cord to the white wire from the toggle switch. Secure with an orange wire connector.


7. Attach the green wire to the green screw located on the light fixture. The green wire from the power cord is the ground wire.


8. Center the light fixture over the 30 inch PVC pipe. Mark the PVC pipe where the holes need to be drilled to attach the light fixture to the PVC pipe. Drill the holes through both side of the PVC pipe and attach the bolt using two washers on both the top and the bottom hole.


9. Feed the bolts through the light fixture and secure using the 1/4 inch nuts.


10. Assemble the PVC legs using the T's and insert the elbows at the top of the leg and into the PVC pipe attached to the light fixture.


11. Place the two florescent or full spectrum bulbs into the light fixture. Your new exposure unit is now ready to use.