Hello, Few years ago before they closed I bought from Salthill a vertical washer and an easel. Those are the most efficient washer and easel I have seen and used Daniel > De : "Edward C. Zimmermann" <edz@xxxxxxx> > Répondre à : pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date : Fri, 01 Jul 2005 09:45:42 +0200 > À : pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Objet : [pure-silver] Re: How do you wash fiber paper? > > Much consensus seems to support these vertical washers but most are just > simple dividing schemes. These work well for a comparatively high throughput > of similarly sized large prints. Most amateur darkrooms seem to operate them > at a tiny fraction of their capacity. They are comfortable but also large, > less than optimally portable and expensive making them, in my view, less than > ideal to many of our lower capacity amateur darkrooms. > > Back in the days when baryta fibre prints were the standard even for mass > operations and prints were not all "large" one washed in big tubs (often > cascaded and dimensioned to the operative capacity demands), instead of > plastic > aquariums, and kept prints from another, instead of by static plexiglass > walls, > by simple clips fashioned from natural cork and latex rubber bands. > > Paterson and others make plastic print drying stands. These can be abused in > tubs fashioned from storage boxes to keep even larger double weight prints > (even 12x16") separated in smaller space. > > The Kodak Automatic Tray Siphons, as have been repeatedly mentioned, can > provide a highly reliable source of water circulation and agitiation for > these schemes. > > Important to get things working well and keep deadlocks down is to follow > the mantra "faster fixing means shorter wash times", viz. to follow the > current wisdom and fix in more concentrated and faster acting fixers (remember > to test) for an adaquate "least amount" of time (again one can test for this). > > Using alkaline or neutral fixers followed by an alkaline bath one can get > down to relatively short washing times. > > -- > -- > Edward C. Zimmermann, Basis Systeme netzwerk, Munich > Office Leo (R&D): > Leopoldstrasse 53-55, D-80802 Munich, > Federal Republic of Germany > http://www.nonmonotonic.net > ============================================================================== > =============================== > 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. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > Wanadoo vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti-virus mail. > Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. > > ============================================================================================================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.