[pure-silver] Re: After sinks, your favourite tongs?

From: "Koch, Gerald" <gkoch02@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:35:38 -0400
Hi Lloyd,

I have a 8x10 Color Canoe which I use whenever I only need to make a
print or two.  Wish I could find an 11x14 (I know they made them).  They
are very convenient for this purpose.

I use either MQ or PQ print developers, a water rinse, and non-hardening
fixer.  I've dunked my hands in these solutions for 50 years without any
harm.  Mostly use tongs but occasionally my fingers.  Don't mind the
smell of stopbath or fixer.  Compared to what I used to smell in a chem
lab they are very mild.  Anyone familiar with the stench of pyridine --
smells like the vapors of Hell.

Jerry

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At 09:07 AM 7/26/2005 , Jerry wrote:

>To remove the smell of fixer from your hands just pour some 3% hydrogen

>peroxide in your hand and rub them together for a few seconds, then 
>rinse with water.
>
>Jerry
>



July 28, 2005, from Lloyd Erlick,

Can I be the only one using single-tray print processing? I don't use
tongs, gloves, squeegees, or anything at all that touches the wet face
of any of my prints.

My skin exposure to chemicals is close to nil. I don't claim nil because
I'm not perfect and sometimes I slosh the tray a bit too much, so a drop
flies out. But if one tried, I'm sure it would be possible to not only
have absolutely no chemical exposure, but not to even wet (plain or tap
water, that is ...) one's hands or fingers. This last might be hard to
achieve; after thoroughly rinsing my print at the end of its process, I
lift it from the tray by fingers at a corner and carry to the washer, so
critics might say my technique is not quite perfect. Still, my hands
never get wet and strictly speaking I don't need to wash them much,
although I do anyway, old horse that I seem to be.

Single-tray work has many advantages.

A few years ago I went on a rampage to eliminate smells I did not like
from my darkroom. Between the "innovations" of single-tray print making,
and the removal of any type of acid from my darkroom, I now work in
complete olfactory and respiratory comfort, and produce work much more
easily and quickly than I did when I had to slug around all those trays.

For an ordinary, black and white darkroom used for the 'regular'
processes of film and paper, there is no need whatever of bad smells
(there are good smells, though. I actually like the mild odor of sodium
thiosulfate in solution by itself.) There is also no need of any type of
chemical exposure of any sort; the darkroom can be completely safe, and
very easily made safe. Doing so also will not detract from the pleasure
of working in the darkroom, or add difficulty to what we want to do.
When comfort rises, so does productivity.

I've pontificated at even greater length on this subject on my wesite.

regards,
--le
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