Spray or tissue

Which is the better.
To use a spray adhesive or to use dry mount tissue and heat to mount prints?
Tissue seems to almost unobtainable here in Canada whilst there are various sprays available.

Melvin J Bramley said:

Which is the better.
To use a spray adhesive or to use dry mount tissue and heat to mount prints?
Tissue seems to almost unobtainable here in Canada whilst there are various sprays available.

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do yourself a favor and stay away from spray adhesives. the spray gets everywhere and makes a BIGmess. gry-mount tissue is available online.

Never use spray mount. You can use linen hinges if you don't want to dry-mount with tissue.

Melvin J Bramley said:

Which is the better.
To use a spray adhesive or to use dry mount tissue and heat to mount prints?
Tissue seems to almost unobtainable here in Canada whilst there are various sprays available.

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Melvin, I buy rolls of it from Prographics in Calgary.
Did you try Carrmclean ?

Spray is nowhere near as good as tissue. There's no comparison.

I wouldn't try to dry mount RC.

Dry mount tissue, a press and weights. Proper size, I have old Seal brand, metal weights to press the photo and mount while cooling. Still my favorite way to handle fiber base paper. When my dear father was still with us he'd make me nice frames out cherry and oak.

Spray adhesive is not only long-term unreliable, with the solvent outgassing really bad for prints, but is quite hazardous to your health, and should ONLY be used in an aggressively ventilated explosion-proof coating tent wearing a full-face organic vapor respirator. It's the type of product which deprives your brain cells of oxygen and rots it out just like glue-sniffing, and has in fact outright prematurely killed a considerable number of pro picture framers of a former generation, when it was once a popular method. The damn stuff should be outlawed. Insulation applicators use it for attaching fiberglass insulation to plumbing pipes, generally in confined spaces. It doesn't take long for them to start acting disoriented and wacko, if they haven't already blown themselves up smoking a cigarette. Yeah - I've actually seen and heard the results of that too. "Heard" is an understatement.

I am very surprised you would even think of mentioning spray adhesive!
In Australia, that hazardous stuff went out for EPA, workplace health and safety reasons (in commercial production facilities) many years back. In all of my museum-grade conservation framing I have used (and continue to use) Seal ColourMount tissue and mounting press; never had a hiccup or fault with this and it is readily available, though has increased incrementally in cost over the last 5-6 years. Even schools have banned the use of spray adhesives for art/craft classes, chiefly because some kids will flog a can and share-a-sniff with their mates (with well-documented catastrophic effects).

Stick with dry mounting tissue... but I agree. It's hard to source here. I haven't bought any for years, as I work mainly with Alt. processes, and hinge mount... If I were to buy it again, I would probably try the Canadian company Carr McLean

Andrew O'Neill said:

If I were to buy it again, I would probably try the Canadian company Carr McLean

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I doubt it.
You would have spent every last dime on a Hasselblad...