Life after death....
I just received an email from a friend who networked a little and found that Stabilix has made a new start under the name of Stabitech. They already have a website online http://www.stabitech.nl the bosscreen is listed as one of the products available. Probably resellers/distributors abroad stayed to be the same companies.
Huib
www.huibsmeets.com
To expand on tim's comments .....
The BosScreen can be verry useful but it is not adaptable to temperature extremes. Physically, the screen consists of a layer of paraffin sandwiched between two glass layers. In extreme heat ... somewhere in the range of 100+ F. the parrafin will melt (you sure can't leave itin a closed car in Florida Brian). In extreme the parafin can crystalize. I often work in extreme cold (0 F to -20 F) and yup, the one I had on my Phillips 4x5 crystalized in a couple of places. I was lucky that it didn't happen in a critical location, like dead center, but it was annoying.
This is a heads-up on the Maxwell screen used on a Busch Pressman. I have one and love it. However, on my Pressman the glass cover plate could not be used when the fold out hood was installed also. (The assembly is just too thick.)
I cut a piece of Mylar from a sheet protector and used that instead.
However, I had to ask Bill to send me a flatter screen than the original one he sent me because without the glass plate installed the screen bowed out slightly. The original one would have been fine with the glass cover plate installed which would have corrected for the slight bow.
Bossreen does not resist to temperatures above 30 C . Bubbles will be formed inside .
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