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Message 1
From: "Ellen Zimmermann"
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 13:11:21 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41289] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V51 #5253 (May 22, 2010) (out of office)
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I will be out of the office on business May 24-27, 2010. I will not be able to check e-mail or voice mail during this time. If you need immediate assistance, please call the main office number 248-758-3276.
Thank you,
Ellen

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Message 2
From: Paul Thomassen
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 14:17:06 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41290] Cleaning blocks with Linseed oil?
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Hi,

I have been reading that many folks like to use either vegetable oil
or baby oil and then follow up with removing the thin oil film from the
block with either Simple Green, or a citrus based cleaner or Dawn dish
detergent, to clean oil based inks from blocks.

I was wondering - would linseed oil instead of veggie or baby oil would do
as good of a job in cleaning?

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Message 3
From: mary caulfield
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 14:33:57 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41291] Re: Cleaning blocks with Linseed oil?
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I use cooking oil because it works well and it's inexpensive. I also use the method
you described to clean my intaglio plates. I don't find the need for solvents, this
method of diluting the oil and then removing it manually, followed by soap, to
emulsify the oil works very well and I don't end up with a headache from all those
solvent fumes.

Clare, new member from Rio de Janeiro.

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Message 4
From: Eileen Corder
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 16:21:09 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41292] extra set from Exchange 43
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Greetings All,

I thought I would open this matter up to the whole group, because with so
many exchanges still in the "pending" stages I don't want to confuse anyone.

From Exchange 43 (Typography) I kept an extra set of prints as insurance
against a set getting lost in the mail. Now that all sets have found their
homes, I am left with this extra set of 28 prints.

I had thought to present it to someone in the Baren community either as a
gift or as a teaching tool for them to use in their classroom, submit it to
a print show, or auction it off as a fundraiser for Baren (or any group for
that matter).

Do any of you, in or out of that exchange, have an opinion? You can contact
me either publicly or privately.

These prints are handsome examples of "hand-cut" typography and I'm sorry
that you outside the exchange aren't yet able to view them.

Namaste,
Eileen

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Message 5
From: Darrell Madis
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 16:59:23 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41293] Re: extra set from Exchange 43
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Have you sent the archive set to the University of Kentucky Museum? If not,
I'll have to send you the Baren case for the set.

Darrell

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Message 6
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 17:45:14 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41294] Re: Cleaning blocks with Linseed oil?
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It is a lot more expensive.....
my best
Barbara


>I was wondering - would linseed oil instead of veggie or baby oil would do as good of a job
>in cleaning?

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Message 7
From: "Maria Arango Diener"
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 23:35:04 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41295] RE: Cleaning blocks with Linseed oil?
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As Barbara pointed out, linseed oil is much more expensive.

BUT, the "real" reason it should not be used for clean-up is that is is
"meant" to be a quick hardening oil, that is, it will leave a heavier film
that will harden with time. Linseed oil, the cheap kind you can buy by the
gallon at home improvement stores, is used as a wood finish; it fills the
wood pores and eventually hardens to a film that protects the wood from dust
and foe (insect foe, that is).



Vegetable oil is cheaper, especially if you buy the store brand by the
gallon. I personally don't like to use standard vegetable oil because it
smells."foodsie", but I admit it works really well.

Mineral oil is less "greasy", lighter, if you will and smells better to me;
it is more expensive but I use so little in clean-up. Just a matter of
preference.

Also, I bought safflower oil once by mistake or maybe it was some other kind
of lighter oil and it doesn't have the foodsie smell.



Maria



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Message 8
From: thadeenz97 # verizon.net
Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 02:26:26 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41296] It's not easy being green
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At the risk of being cast as "anti-green," I've tried the vegetable oil thing and was just never satisfied. Odorless mineral spirits are the only thing I use. Let's face it, printing is probably one of the least green arts (it sure is on the commercial side of things too): wood, plywood, bleached papers. Even the harmless sounding mineral oil is a byproduct of gasoline production. Which isn't to suggest we shouldn't TRY. But my suggestion is to conserve materials and to be responsible, and one of the best ways to do that is to use the best materials for the job.

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Message 9
From: "Maria Arango Diener"
Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 03:58:09 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41297] RE: It's not easy being green
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Oh yes, Jeff is right in that a little goes a long way, I forgot to mention, I've gone through a whole PINT of mineral oil in three years. Most of the time, the oil starts smelling rancid before I use it all up.

Definitely as green as possible, when compared to standard solvents, and very little petroleum is used.

Between mineral oil and vinegar-windex, I can eat off my rollers.



Maria



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