good idea. That's why I had separate squeegees to begin with. --shannon On Apr 6, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Eric Nelson wrote: > If possible I'd use some steel wool or whatever works on the rusty handle and > continue to use it on fixer laden prints, and not use the same one used for > washed prints. There's already enough risks in making a stable print that > you don't want to introduce more chances of possible contamination. > > From: shannon Stoney <shannonstoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Wed, April 6, 2011 7:47:36 AM > Subject: [pure-silver] Re: bluish round spot on print > > I think I figured it out. I have this squeegee with a rusty handle: it's > really for cleaning windows. Sometimes I squeegee a test print with it over > the fixer tray. Some rust probably fell off it into the fixer tray. > > I use an all plastic squeegee for the final squeegeeing. Last night I threw > the rusty one away. I'll just have to rinse the plastic one carefully if I > use it to squeegee a test print. > > --shannon > >