8mm Forum: Black paint for screens

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Posted by Adrian Winchester (Member # 248) on May 17, 2011, 10:25 PM:

I wondered if anyone might know exactly what sort of black paint manuafacturers use on the border of roll up or tripod screens? I need to do some work on one that will need some extra paint. I once followed up a tip and used matt black spray on car paint, which was OK, but it was a bit more reflective than I would have liked, despite being black.

Posted by Wayne Tuell (Member # 1689) on May 18, 2011, 04:20 PM:

Adrian, if you are up for spending a little extra...there is black velvet tape for projection screens on fleabay.

I often wondered if this stuff would do just as well.
http://www.filmtools.com/ptdp20bla.html

Posted by Adrian Winchester (Member # 248) on May 19, 2011, 02:45 PM:

Wayne - thanks for the suggestion, which I'm seriously considering. I hadn't thought of tape in view of it being a basic roll up screen (not spring loaded). But as the tape comes on a roll, I suppose there's no reason to assume that a screen could not be rolled up with the tape on it.

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