This was a Daveid Katchel article in Darkroom and Creative camera
Techniques about 8 months ago. I madea very large tube to develop 20x24
prints in before we broke down and bought 20x24 trays (inches, not
centimeters). I went out a bought 8inch PVC pipe at 5 dollars a foot and
made a 20 inch tube. Remember that circumference is pi times diameter,
so 24 inch long print devided by 3.14159 (pi) equals 7.64, or a little
bit under 8 inches in diameter.
I had trouble finding a small piece, they wanted to sell it in 20 foot
lenghts. A pick-up truck, dirty jeans, worn steel toed boots and a hard
hat helping in talking to theses people. I work as a safety engineer and
on construction sites, have to dress the part!
Plus it makes it real easy to get good pictures of people at work!
Hope this helps...
Howard Etkind
On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, Judy Seigel wrote:
> Now I see no help except to roll in a tube. (Me too, maybe.)
>
> There was an article some time ago about rolling tubes open at both ends
> in a tray full of chemistry. (Guess I could find it in no more than a week
> or two.) Has anyone done that? I haven't figured how large a tube. I
> guess I could do that bending a 12 inch wire into a circle. Any comments?
> Advice? Corrections? Does PVA come that large?
>
> Suggestions, hints, encouragement, would be most heartily appreciated.
>
> Judy
>