RE: MURATIC !
John, While I feel bad about your equipment, the most valuable piece of equipment in your darkroom is you! This is why I gave up having that in my workspace. We all know that we keep all sorts of less than benign liquids and solids in our creative spaces. Limiting their access to my lungs and eyes is of top priority. The most caustic thing that my cameras and equipment are kept close to is the batteries that run my meters. Eric Eric Neilsen Photography 4101 Commerce Street Suite 9 Dallas, TX 75226 http://e.neilsen.home.att.net http://ericneilsenphotography.com Skype ejprinter > -----Original Message----- > From: John Cremati [mailto:johnjohnc@core.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 11:52 AM > To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca > Subject: Re: MURATIC ! > > I have a shelf full of old glacial acidic acid and some other old > photographic diazon chemicals used for blueprint machines.......... Like > a > dummy I kept some lenses on a shelf beneath these , some of them quite > valuable........ For some reason some of the plastic bottles just got > brittle and cracked by them selves.....I almost lost maybe $5000 in LF > lenses because of this..... It did damage some of them and I lost the > black > finish but they were the cheaper process lenses and the loss was only a > few > hundred... > > I now store everything in commercial heavy nalgeen bottles... > > Also in the basement where I store Muratic acid I noticed the metal shelf > severely rusting out and all the paint cans on the self below and above > were > rusted...... > John Cremati. > >
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