Bits stuck under glass!

[DaveJ]

Right, gotcha.

[Trinity]

Whenever I can i assemble working up to the top sheet of glass and then apply P90 tape to the perimeter, checking for flumbs beforehand. Once its clean and taped there's nothing that can get in and you can move it around at will.........bugger me what's that!

[Roboframer]

The best anti-flumb bit of kit I have is my glass cleaning/final assembly surface. It's a 4x3 sheet of 3mm MDF painted black and covered in staggered lines of domed rubber frame bumpers (with their self adhesive backed up with more serious stuff) about 3" apart.

Last time I replaced it I made a grid of adhesive (it is actually called "serious stuff") to place the bumpers on and I toyed with the idea of just letting it dry and seeing how that would work.

[Skinnymarinky]

Dust is more likely to settle on a horizontal surface than a vertical one!

I've never put a frame together while it's horizontal, I stand them up on a shelf, clean glass, pop it in, quick blast of air on inside of glass and face of artwork and in it goes. Squeeze together the small ones and lay on bench, or put a few points in the big ones while still vertical, then move to bench. Don't see many flumbs. Try it

[prospero]

You will get more dust floating about if you go blasting air all over the place.

I don't even make sudden moves when I'm assembling. In fact I hardly ever make sudden moves at all.

[Graysalchemy]

I always blast with air.

[kartoffelngeist]

I have about 20 guys on work placements who can deal with thing like this, so not a problem for me at all!

On a serious note, I've always just seen it as part of the framing process. There's something quite therapeutic about spending time dusting out a frame before assembly. I've tried getting some of the guys assembling face up, but it's lead to glass smashing and damaging pictures. Is that something that's happened to anyone else? Just more care needed?

[DaveJ]

Thanks all