[pure-silver] Re: Flooded print

  • From: mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:49:13 -0700

Well just to update everyone, all three methods failed.  Any pressure from a sponge that was enough to get the dirt, got the emulsion as well.  So did the flowing water.  The quick dip helped loosen the dirt but also loosened the emulsion.  Maybe there was a better way, but for this print it had sat under water just too long in too poor of conditions to really be saved.  Oh well.

Mark
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Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Flooded print
From: mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, June 03, 2010 1:30 pm
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Well the small boy is now driving so its at least 15 years old or so.  Not centuries old, but not last week either.  I am worried the friction of a sponge may cause a shift in the emulsion.  Long soaks also might cause it to lift.  Flowing water also might be a problem.  Think the thing I am going to try first is a quick dip an a flush under very low flowing water, then hang to dry.  Then I am going to hope for the best.  I do have another I kept that I really don't care about I am going to test it on first that was stored in the same place, but its much older.  If it works on that one, it should work on the more important one.

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Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Flooded print
From: "Nicholas O. Lindan" <nolindan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, June 03, 2010 10:17 am
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

"Go not to the elves for advice - for they will say both 'yes' and 'no'."

From my experience with old crudded black and white prints ... and if yours
is RA4 it isn't
'old', but new.

I would flush the surface of the print under flowing water and remove the
dirt first with a brush
(such as a house-painting trim brush) and then, after all the big stuff is
removed, with a sopping
wet paper towel. Hang to dry.

The emulsion may loosen if the print spent long periods of its life under
water

Nicholas O. Lindan
Cleveland Engineering Design, LLC
Cleveland, Ohio 44121

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