was in a bit of a rush, so to clarify. to do this we would have to go to email that way I could give you # of supply house. which you'd verify by looking them up online. after talking to them, you would call & order case of filters & mastic tape (hopefully you'll get the mastic tape!). I would pick up your pre-paid order. often my clients pre-pay supply house..and deliver. just not to your area! the part I come in on is picking up & mailing to you. case of filters is light, but bulky. the weight is the hardcast tape. by email we could exchange price to ship...and address to mail to you. shopping usps, ups & fed ex prices we can decide via email.delivering by truck. 18 wheeler is expensive. manager told me that there was an $80 charge for mini split covers. these were small, so a high price for a small pkg makes other options more attractive. it is only a few times that I've done this. but when you see someone trying to do it right.. it is worth it, in time & hvac supply access, to me. as you'll find out by clicking on my user name to access my email, the 'not so secret' will be out. once again. not many men with my name! did you have a chance to see if the double supply chase stops at the bottom of the grill? do you understand what I mean? with the chase stops at the supply grill.. then the velocity of the air is greater & not lessened/wasted continuing down the wall. this will give the supply grills more air. sorry to have taken longer to clarify than usual. I'd been keeping a close eye on this thread, but had some paying work to do. take care.

One of my duties when I worked in the Philadelphia Library was to maintain the clipping file. Every day I read a handful of local papers and clipped articles that might be useful to our patrons or staff. These papers only had a local circulation and were too small to be indexed in any of the major published indexes. This was back in the 70's before we had a computer on every desk and cubby. Retrieving a newspaper or periodical article meant locating the microfiche or microcard and using the appropriate readers. Newspapers in their original form were too fragile for long term storage unless in an archival setting - controlled temperature and humidity, light, dust and pollution free etc. In other words it was a royal P.I.A. - Any clipping that we deemed important was photocopied onto permanent paper - paper that was acid free, lignin free, and tear resistant. The link below has a lot of information of preserving newspapers and at the bottom of the article it has a link to creating archival scrapbooks too. Here is a link that might be useful: clippings

I don't use tape. Years of painting all the ornate trim in our former house, a Victorian, have given me a steady hand and eye so that I don't need to. Well that and very high-quality brushes of course...In fact, this summer I finished painting the walls in the master bedroom here. There are 16 old ceiling beams set into the walls at the top edge of the walls. So, two coats of paint means I had to paint around the equivalent of 64 beams, on each beam's bottom edge and two sides. (Talk about a project that seemed never-ending!) Soon, like you, I'll be painting windows and doors with many panes in them. The problem with tape is that, unless you can apply the tape so that it follows the edge you're covering perfectly, you still run the risk either of leaving parts of your new paint job unpainted or of getting paint on something you wanted to protect. When I do the type of painting you'll be doing, in addition to an angled brush I also use a very small artist's brush, one with fine, flexible bristles. You should be able to buy single brushes or even buy sets at a good paint store. Expect to spend major money on them. I think one of my small brushes alone cost three dollars. Anyway what I do is paint the woodwork around the panes bringing the paint almost to the corner where the woodwork right-angles to the next edge. I don't know what the correct term is, but what I do is let the paint flow off the brush such that, by the time the brush meets the corner, there is virtually no paint left. I'm trying to avoid little paint blobs in the corner. I do the same all around the pane and I let the paint dry. After it's dried thoroughly -- and only at that point -- I touch up in the corners with the artist's brush. If you can paint quickly enough you could use the artist's brush as you go. I must not paint quickly enough, as I've found that paint on the small brush may start to dry a bit.

I have gotten lots of books on tape at the second hand/thrift stores here. Our library has a zillion, would take me years to listen to them all. I don't know if your library has a lot of them but I'd certainly check that out before I'd join anything. If I was to join any of those club type places, I'd go with the one Donna mentioned - that way I'd be able to keep the books on tape I've bought at the thrift stores in circulation and not piled up around my house. Thanks for the reminder, I am going on a short trip (1.5 hrs each way) this weekend, I will have to dig out a tape I haven't listened to yet for the trip. Suzan J