[Alt-photo] Re: DAS

[Bert Kuijer]

Hello Kees,
A teacher in a course for making dry plate glass negatives had the same
problem with drying the glass plates after coating. He had a simple but
effective method. He stored the coated glass plates in cardboard boxes for
2 days. The boxes are light tight and the cardboard absorbs moisture easily.
If you dry inside a plastic box or a tight cabinet, the moisture can't go
any where so it can dry for many, many days.
And to keep the costs very low, he buys old board games on flee markets,
throws away the contents, keeping only the outer boxes for his drying ;-)

"Have fun and catch that light beam!"
Bert from Holland
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2013/4/15 Kees Brandenburg <workshops at polychrome.nl>

> Hi Loris,
>
> (...)
> My biggest problem is the drying time of the freshly coated sensitized
> tissue. It prevents me to turn on normal lights in my darkroom for almost 2
> days! I should build a light-tight drying cabinet. Mixing coating and
> preparing for printing I do under sodium vapor safelights. I have two Osram
> Duka's and a large French made safe light that carries a Philips SOX sodium
> vapor lamp. So that's a lot of safe light.
>
> -kees
>
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