Qui Gon Jinn
New Member
Hello everyone,
I joined this forum because I wanted to ask you for your help regarding best preservation of my props.
I have few props that are production used and they are over 30 years old.
I moved them to my new wooden display cabinet,but I would like to add LED lights and have them illuminated pretty much always.
However,since some are made of polyurethane and latex and I'm very afraid that they will degrade if they have constant light over them,and temperature in cabinet would probably rise as well because of light.
I also read that UV from LED lights are damaging stuff if they are over items directly.
I was thinking about putting lights indirectly behind cabinet,but I still want to be 100% sure that no degradation will happen.Also,I'm not sure that props will handle well dry and warm air.
Since I'm pretty fresh with collecting props,I would like to know what else can I do to preserve my props for years to come?
Can you guys tell me your opinion?
All the best,
Samuel
I joined this forum because I wanted to ask you for your help regarding best preservation of my props.
I have few props that are production used and they are over 30 years old.
I moved them to my new wooden display cabinet,but I would like to add LED lights and have them illuminated pretty much always.
However,since some are made of polyurethane and latex and I'm very afraid that they will degrade if they have constant light over them,and temperature in cabinet would probably rise as well because of light.
I also read that UV from LED lights are damaging stuff if they are over items directly.
I was thinking about putting lights indirectly behind cabinet,but I still want to be 100% sure that no degradation will happen.Also,I'm not sure that props will handle well dry and warm air.
Since I'm pretty fresh with collecting props,I would like to know what else can I do to preserve my props for years to come?
Can you guys tell me your opinion?
All the best,
Samuel