At 05:18 PM 6/25/2005 , you wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <mailto:genej2@xxxxxxx>Gene Johnson > To: <mailto:pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 2:14 PM > Subject: Coffee filters > > Just found another good reason to drink coffee. My negatives have had a lot > more junk in them than usual, and I've started thinking it was coming from > the fixer. So I poured the fixer through a coffee filter and was surprised > by what I found. There were those tiny bits of fiber and flecks of > who-knows-what, and just little particles of dirt that I've been finding on > my film. I think I'll be doing this more often. jun2605 from Lloyd Erlick, It's a really good idea for selenium toner, too. I've pretty much stopped discarding my selenium; I just keep topping it up when it runs low. Frequent filtering helps keep it clear. To make the solution pass through the filter relatively quickly, it's important to have air *behind* ("under") the filter. I have one of those solid mesh 'permanent' coffee filters (not the gold-plated kind! There's always one available at the Goodwill for pennies) and I put my paper filter (much finer filtering than the mesh) inside it, and the whole thing goes into an ordinary funnel. I found if I put the paper filter in the funnel directly, it went through extremely slowly, because the paper sticks to the funnel. I tried one of the filter-holding-funnels made for the purpose (a genuine Melitta with ribs to hold up the filter ...) but it was only marginally faster. regards, --le ________________________________ Lloyd Erlick Portraits, Toronto. voice: 416-686-0326 email: portrait@xxxxxxxxxxxx net: <http://www.heylloyd.com/>www.heylloyd.com ________________________________ -- ============================================================================================================To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.