work lights, barn doors

original email

from me

subject line: barndoors

http://www.shuttertalk.com/articles/diylighting

http://www.bealecorner.com/trv900/barn/barndoors.html

i'm tempted to pick up a propane torch and take a crack at building
some barn doors. i don't know if it's a smart idea. but not
everything can be a smart idea.

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http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/shop/2247/Tungsten_Lights_Kits.html

with light kits running in the range of 1,000$ and up, i decided to take a trip to home depot. i started with a 250w halogen worklight (13$), some sheet aluminum (8$), spray paint (4$), epoxy (5$) and some tin snips that i found in the garage.



these are the tin snips. they cut through sheet metal like paper. i think they run about 10-13$.


j-b weld is a brand of epoxy - one part resin, one part hardener, mix together and apply. the only problem is that it takes 4-6 hours to set, 24 hours to dry completely. for the first few hours whatever you apply it to needs to be held (gently) in place.


this is a 1.50$ clamp holding one of the aluminum barndoors to a hinge (1$ for a set of two). several times i tried to take a clamp off within a few hours, thinking that the epoxy was dry, only to watch parts a and b fall apart. i hate epoxy.


to avoid any further use of epoxy, i picked up some miniature screw/nut combos (1$ for 10-pack).


spray painting is interesting. a painter saw me doing this with regular spray paint and told me that it was going to smoke when it got hot. he spoke like that guy on king of the hill that no one outside texas really understands, boomhauer? except in korean. and sometimes english.


painter-boomer's advice was to get some auto primer and heat resistant paint.


several trips to home depot later, i ended up bringing home a stand + 2 500w halogen light set (40$). several days of drilling, cutting, measuring, and painting later - i had my finished project.

the close-up.