Author Topic: vacuum blanket life.  (Read 2351 times)

Offline Sbrem

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Re: vacuum blanket life.
« Reply #15 on: August 22, 2013, 10:02:19 AM »
a pond liner from Home Depot or Lowe's will work. I bought one a few years ago, $40, and enough to do our pretty large (60 x 44) exposure unit twice...

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Re: vacuum blanket life.
« Reply #16 on: August 22, 2013, 10:06:40 AM »
Gerr's problem is along the edges where it is fastened down. I know we went through that problem with our old vastex unit. Once it started to rip around the edges I took it apart rolled the edges to give it a hem and refastened. I also doubled the amount of hold down screws to give it some more life. It tightened the blanket up some but it did last for years.
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Re: vacuum blanket life.
« Reply #17 on: August 27, 2013, 05:52:15 AM »
I tried a pond liner but it seemed too stiff for the vacuum to pull down completely on the unit.