Re: drying racks?
I place in cardboard boxes such as those used for storage of
documents. Being somewhat light tight, it enables me to do other
things in the darkroom area while they are drying.
On Aug 11, 2009, at 11:29 AM, phritz phantom wrote:
hi everyone,
i'm currently doing some re-organizing in my alt. processes working
area. unfortunately i don't have a real lab, only a room for the
dry side and classic b/w positive stuff and a bathroom for all the
wet work. after about a year, i'm somewhat fed up with some of the
chaos and constant fear of things possibly contaminated with
dichromate or something else... actually i'm very careful (i think/
hope), but at times the overlapping of space for living and for
photography makes me nervous....
so, i'm in the process of building drying racks for, well...
drying, but especially for drying coated emulsions and sensitized
tissue. the classic workflow would be to coat, leave flat for some
time, then hang to dry- i guess. that's what i've been doing until
now. but i don't want to do the hanging anymore, because the only
place to hang them is above my bathtub and i don't feel comfortable
with that anymore. also horizontal drying is beneficial sometimes.
so i've built some drying frames out of fly screens and canvas
frames. i will stack those, put some kind of pan beneath it to
collect possible drops and a fan in front of it. now i started
thinking, that cleaning those frames could be a nuisance, so i will
protect them with a layer of old newspaper (anything sticky on the
backside should just wash off during processing) or so ... or
switch to wire screens if i can find them.
what i've been wondering these days is, how everyone else is
handling the coated papers? maybe there is an ingenious simple
solution (hopefully), i didn't think of..
regards,
phritz
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