Laura Kubick
Abstract
Two tips will be presented: 1) The first is using a fort building set, intended for kids, to help quickly and easily create temporary enclosures for objects without making contact with the objects. The fort building sets are about $40 – $60. They can also be used for low-tech humidification or solvent chambers when covered in polyethylene sheeting. We first started using these when we had 8 sculptures from Papua New Guinea in our lab, each with delicate surfaces and feathers that we wanted to cover when not being treated, but did not want to crush their feathers. 2) I also want to let people know that I discovered a low cost alternative to the rheostat (suction control) for Nilfisk vacuums that are sold on Talas and elsewhere for more that $600. I discovered that if you buy directly from the manufacturer of this piece of equipment, you can get the same item for about $35 + shipping.