I've found a place to get glass beads like professional screen use!

[Sir_Vival]

A man here locally makes them. I just tried it out, painted on plywood then put on, and it makes it a TON brighter. Before I was having troubles with brightness, now it's not a problem at all. I noticed the picture wasn't quite as clear, but I'm pretty sure that's because my fresnels were VERY misaligned, because i just moved the projector. I'm willing to provide these for you guys..not sure on the price yet, as they are pretty heavy and wouldn't be the easiest to ship, but first I need to see how much demand there is for them.

BTW-I'll post pictures later, maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow.

[Sir_Vival]

Just an update..I was having troubles with my LCD...kinda..um..dropped it But I think I have everything reconnected now, so I should be able to take pics tonight. I did some more testing last night, and I can safely say that it atleast doubled the brightness of dark spots that I couldn't see before..atleast. Now it looks very, very close to the brightness of a TV.

[buckster]

I tried a glass beaded screen and the gain was great until I sat down, then I was off axis a bit and it was actually darker.

I would like to experiment with something like this if it not too expensive. The light gain is impressive but can actually be too much of a good thing.

Thanks!

[ace3000_1]

yeah ill order a tonne or 2 lol, great find much apreciated keep us updated with the price and weight.

trev

[Sir_Vival]

I know that it will be less than 15 dollars a pound..not sure how much..might go down to 10..or even five if he gives a big discount on buying in bulk. And those prices include shipping, atleast inside the US.

I only needed 2 pounds to do mine, and most of it I was able to recover after letting the stuff that would dry to the paint do it, so it should be cheap enough for anyone.

I did notice that the vertical position of the viewer is what counts, but not horizontal, or atleast that's how it looked last night. A bit hard to tell when your LCD is flashing purple

[ace3000_1]

nice price sir_vival, once again thanks for the excellent find, im wondering what this stuff is like to spray, did u brush yours on or did u spray it? and did u need to use the spy nozzle abit bigger then spaying normal paint?

Thanks
Trev

[JTB]

I don't know if this is ok to use or not, but.... Glass Beads.

They used to have a much smaller container available. I don't see it now, but I didn't look too hard for it either.

EDIT: Found it. I don't know if it's the same stuff in a smaller container or ???

More Glass Beads.

[Sir_Vival]

nice price sir_vival, once again thanks for the excellent find, im wondering what this stuff is like to spray, did u brush yours on or did u spray it? and did u need to use the spy nozzle abit bigger then spaying normal paint?

I first sanded a large piece of plywood, then I primed it, then painted. I let the first coat dry and then added a second, thick, coat. The plywood was on two sawhorses at the time. Then I just sprinkled the glass beads heavily over the wet paint, so it would be sure to have every inch of paint covered in beads. After about 4-5 hours of drying, I tipped the screen on to a bed sheet to salvage the remaining beads that didn't dry on.

I'm not sure how/if you could get them to spray on, but it would be handy for touchups if you could. I'm assuming from your post that you thought I put it directly in to spraypaint. The beads are smaller than salt, but I don't know if they would spray too nicely.

JTB: I spose it would be worth a shot, but the beads I found are made for reflecting. Those probably aren't polished and the such.

[ace3000_1]

huh, ok yeah i did think that you mixed it in the paint then sparayed lol stupid thought realy, im curious to see how a high quaility silicon sand would go, that stuff is fine as, in aust we got heaps of it and its what we send all over the world to make certain high quality glass, it just gets washed and filtered, the silicon sand im talking about is like talcom power its very very fine and looks like glass, it wouldnt be as good as the beads u have though one would think but its worth a try, now what we need is a small mechanisim to spread those beads out evenly.

trev

[ace3000_1]

i beleive the glass beads u have put the link to is sandblasting beads, ive never have seen them use glass before as it would smash as it hits the surface and would be a very potentional harzard to your health, maybe its the silicon i was talking about in the above post.

Trev