Light Box… help please

[Tim Painter]

Opal Acrylic as it diffuses the light.

[Matty Goodwin]

If it was clear you’d see inside it!

Matt

[Graeme Harrold]

Glass no no no. As Tim says the opal will diffuse the light otherwise you would have more noticeable light areas in front of the tubes. Fluorescent tubes are cheaper to purchase but more expensive for the customer to run. The opposite is true of LED’s…..

[Gavin Conway]

Hi all…. I seem to maybe have called my item by the wrong name…. 😳

What I mean as a Light Box is for me to use for layering purposes… I don’t do a lot of layering but am slowly building up my workload and want to build one to use.. Maybe this will help on some replies for the correct item!! Cheers gavin

[Gavin Conway]

Dosn’t anyone use a light box that can advise me??

[Graham . Shand]

I use a light box for layering, but the
other way to do this, by using clear application tape,

[Derek Heron]

hi gavin
i think hugh potter made one for his workshop
some fluorescent tubes under the bench with a piece of reinforced glass inset into the top i have a one similar which was a printers viewing box i put a piece of glass on top it has an opal panel underneath so its not too bright ideal for overlaying vinyl
hope this helps

derek

[Gavin Conway]

Thanks guys… I made one at the weekend… looks like a coffin with some perspex on top… made it a bit too deep though – realised too late so just put the bulbs a bit higher up.. I had a pile of low energy long life 75watt bulbs and put 6 of them in… looks like a good enough light so will test it sometime. I have some glass frosting aerosol spray so will try a sample of this on some spare perspex to see if I should make the top opaque… ?? !! Just trial and error. About using clear app tape… I do use it but my cutter is not the best quality and on a long sign I need to re-align a bit from the registration marks…

Till the test then…. thanks again for the advice – Gavin