Hi All,93
Simple question! I have discovered some gels that have been stored for a while, in rolls. I've cut them into 'pre-made' cut sizes and want to put them in a filling cabinet - ready to grab on a set-up.
However, the sheets keep curling up because of their time in rolls - is there a way to 'flatten' them so they sit better in my filling cabinet?
Thanks
@Dk85jones Purely by luck of the draw, when a
theatre I was with wanted to create two four drawer filing cabinets full of
stock, pre-cut gels in four sizes of three brands, it coincided with a civic election; one of our board members was planning to run for some civic office, bought a skid full of 1/8", pre-finished, white
Masonite intending to have the
Masonite cut and printed to sizes for election signs then changed his mind. Our
theatre found itself with a fork lift skid of 1/8" white
Masonite pre-cut to ~ 24" x 36"; a table saw and sander made quick work of cutting filing dividers and the white sides were perfect for labeling with a magic marker. The 1/8"
Masonite was a
bit too thick and heavy for the job, and we definitely wouldn't have paid for it, when it was delivered to our truck dock as a gift we put it to work.
Our Head Electrician was purchasing gels by the
roll, initially
Strand's
Cinemoid, then
Lee,
Roscolene,
Roscolar and eventually
Roscolux.
No matter how long the
gel had been rolled, the heavy white
Masonite far outweighed it resulting in our pre-cuts eventually giving up the curled
gel fight.
Thanks for my memories of 1973.
Toodleoo!
Ron Hebbard