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Strong work. It's been said before... there's some amazing talent involved with this site. Congrats on the HT!

What to do based off what not to do learning…….

When the paint color specified has a part number associated with it, you might want to remember that. There are several shades of metallic gold, peril and silver at those craft shops. Asking the lady which gold is pale won’t help.

Read the paint sprayer instructions before screwing up. Hoping that they may help you fix your screw ups after the fact doesn’t help matters. Once you screw up, there’s no going back. They don’t tell you much to begin with come to think about it. It’d be better to just ask someone how to use the damn things that knows. Or better yet, have someone else spray your screen.

Don’t put plastic down on the floor where you will be spraying. That crap is slippery on plastic when you are in a hurry dancing around the sheet with a paint sprayer.

Make sure you don’t sit down on your leather sofa with paint on your ass.

Don’t spray the sheet flat. The damn sprayer runs out of paint and spits out huge globs of paint because you have the stupid thing at an angle. Chances are that by the time you get to the bottom half of the sprayer’s paint can, you are on your finish coat. The sprayer will suck air and spit it out on your sheet along with goobers of paint.

Troweling out the globs doesn’t work no matter how steady you think your hand is. A brush does no better. It’s paint after all, not concrete or plaster. Don’t know what I was thinking, but it most definitely wasn’t smart thinking.

Spaying more paint over the trowel and brush marks in hopes to “spread the screw ups out more evenly” is a bad idea.

If the paint looks wet, it probably is. Touching it to confirm this suspicion is a bad idea. Troweling or brushing out the finger print doesn’t work either. More paint doesn’t work either.

Don’t just wing it. Try to practice your new found skills at spraying on something else first. Something big because these stupid sprayers have a gazillion different things to adjust.

Install the French cleats or other hanging means on the back of the board before spraying it. They are tough to install lying under the board.

Skip the double miters on the trim.

Velvet is awfully hard to keep clean in a garage with sawdust everywhere.

I hope that helps those who are contemplating a DIY screen………

Man your place is extremely nice Michael, the HT room and screen is looking mighty fine ... you have a very good taste in design and it looks as though you put it all together with an exceptional talent. Great job my man!

*It's obvious you are not married, the raised toilet seat is a dead give away.

What are you talking about? The seat's down, but the lid is up. It's in "quick access" mode.

LOL!

Wisdom for the ages, my friend!

Very good points Mike. I've used a sprayer, but not on a screen. I know what you mean about all the settings and ways it can go wrong. It's complicated getting the adjustments for the spray, distance to spray, and angles right.

I could feel of your frustration in reading, especially when you mentioned the slipperly plastic on the floor, followed by sitting on your leather sofa with wet paint.

After all that, the pics of the room and of the screen look excellent. A job well done.

I think I'm finally done messing with this room and buying gizmo's. The 2.35 screen and anamorphic lens is up and I've almost got the VP50 and HD DVD player figured out. I ended up making a projector mount that I can adjust north/south/east/west, up and down, four corner level and move the lens back and forth. The mount I bought was a piece of junk and I couldn't touch it without it moving in the wrong direction.

Here's some pictures. Ya I know. They suck. About all I know how to do is put the camera on auto and push the button.....





Stewart Firehawk 2.35 Screen (96 X 41)



Eagle HD in 1.69



Space Cowboys 2.35/1 HD DVD (non-stretched with the lens in pass mode)



Same shot, stretched



(not sure why this shot does't look bigger, I didn't touch / zoom the camera. You can tell it's bigger by looking at the freeze box though)

Ooooh - freaking - Ahhhh!!

It must be nice to have the skills to fabricate stuff like that, have it work and have it look nice.

Great room. Great setup. I hope you can relax and enjoy it now

Howly mowly! You could easily sell that mount online and make enough money to quadruple your music and video collection, I think. Or fund your wine hobby, or....

But, then, you might not have enough time to enjoy those things. With power, comes responsibility.

You guys are too much. LOL....

Thanks for the compliments.

Relax Tom? I'll get plenty of time for that and sleep when I'm dead. There's too much stuff to do and things to see or learn to relax.