[pure-silver] Re: Fw: Coffee filters
- From: Lloyd Erlick <lloyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 10:32:37 -0400
At 05:18 PM 6/25/2005 , you wrote:
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> 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
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> 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
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