RE: Crate shop equipment

["Geoff Browne" <gbrowne@terrydowd.com>]

Dear Katie:

Beware of using heat in any form, but perhaps especially hot wire
cutters for foam - one compound released in the process contains
cyanide. We use Bosch foam saws for foam, and traditional paper
cutters...

Geoff Browne 

-----Original Message-----
From: pacinlist-bounces@pacin.org [mailto:pacinlist-bounces@pacin.org]
On Behalf Of Katie Welty
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 11:15 AM
To: list@pacin.org
Subject: Crate shop equipment

The Brooklyn Museum's department of Planning and Architecture is 
proposing to move our crate and packing shop and have asked us to 
investigate new alternative saws that could result in a shop with less 
equipment and thus requiring a smaller more efficient space.

Currently, our crater/packer has a table saw, rip saw, band saw, 
vertical wall saw, and a sander.  He cuts  wood, paper, foam and 
plastics on this equipment. Is anyone familiar with alternative 
equipment that may use heat or laser to cut foams and paper more 
efficiently?  I would welcome your suggestions.

Thank you,

Katie Welty

Registrar, Exhibitions and International Loans
Brooklyn Museum 
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238

tel: 718-501-6337	fax: 718-501-6135