[pure-silver] Re: After sinks, your favourite tongs?
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:57:31 -0700
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From: "Tim Rudman" <ps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 12:58 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] After sinks, your favourite tongs?
Another casualty of the changing times for darkroom.
Kenro make (made) my favourite tongs, 10 inches long,
stainless steel,
replaceable rubber tips, perfect shape, firm grip with
minimal pressure,
never mark the emulsion, never snap.
Guess what - they have discontinued production.
I have searched around all my suppliers for decent
alternatives and the
choice is very limited for these grossly underestimated
tools! It may sound
trivial but I think that really good tongs are not only a
joy to use, they
are surprisingly hard to find.
So what are your favourite tongs, why and where do you get
them?
Tim
http://www.worldbookoflithprinting.com
<http://www.worldbookoflithprinting.com/>
I am another who uses the cheap bamboo tongs. The
problem I have with gloves is that you have to take them off
to handle fresh paper.
At one time you could buy a sort of liquid rubber or
plastic for dipping the handles of pliers and other
electrical tools in to provide an insulated gripping
surface. This stuff would work for replacing rubber boots on
tongs but I haven't seen any for a while.
---
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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