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Effect of Haze Fluid


cameronaffleck

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Hi,

Thanks in advance for all the suggestions/answers received,

 

Does anyone know if hazer fluid has an effect on books? Such as damaging the books, etc.. I've got to do an event in a library, which has some pretty old books in there, and the organisers want an effect that requires haze. Are there specific types that could damage the books, or is there likely to be no harm at all?

 

Cheers,

Cameron

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I reckon you'd want to avoid a proper cracked oil machine (DF50 etc.) as they're mineral-oil based and have a tendency to coat nearby surfaces.

go for a water-based one and you *should* be okay, but I would situate the machine as far from these old books as you can, whatever you decide.

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I think it depends on how old and the condition of the books.

 

Last Christmas we ran a unique in a 3x3x5 room every day for a month (on low to be fair) with no obvious damage to the items in there. However some boxes that hid the hazer were perhaps damper than the rest of the room. Everything had something of a film covering it if I think back thick at all just a light film that I'm sure would disappear. I assume it was perhaps a light sugar film ? given the components of haze.

 

It all depends on how much you plan on using as well. I would guess a light haze is ok and perhaps a thick is less good.

 

Thinking about it the bodleian library was used in harry potter. I don't recall any haze in scenes but they might be worth talking to.

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There will be a slight deposit left on everything in the room. How much depends on how long the haze is there for and how dense it is.

As PeterT says an oil cracker machine leaves a thin deposit of oil on everything, but the water based machines also leave a thin deposit of glycol - water based is probably less bad.

You need to talk to the library and agree with them what is acceptable.

 

Also beware of smoke detection systems which are usually quite sensitive in libraries...

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Picture an invoice for restoration of 3000 antiquarian books at £1000 each and tell them NO. It's a pretty low risk but I wouldn't go there just in case. CO2 jets or dry ice maybe ,or a heavy confetti dump to cover a reveal.

 

Sam

 

I would agree with this. Cracked oil is a definite no, but I would think the library is likely to baulk even at glycol haze.

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  • 3 weeks later...

I forgot to chip in on this when it was still hot. It would be interesting to test (perhaps not in the library) a conventional glycol hazer against one of the pea soupers. They use a co2 system and consume only tiny amounts of fluid, and one would like to think less mess going in = less mess coming out. I think le maitre also do a co2 driven hazer which doesn't use much fluid either.

 

If the OP is still working on this, setting up a test environment might be the best route forward.

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