From: TERRY KING, 101522,2625
TO: Jack Fulton, INTERNET:jfulton@itsa.ucsf.EDU
DATE: 05/06/96 17:28
RE: Copy of: Re: Clearing dichromate
n Wed, 5 Jun 1996, TERRY KING wrote:
Jack
As I have said earlier, and we all know, what is suitable for one part of the
world is quite inappropriate for another. We have to use our common sense. I was
saying what I do. I would not suggest it for anyone not on the mains or who
lived in California, I have been to the movies, or in New York where it costs a
lot of money.
>
> ...... I find that if one washes a gum print in gently running water
> for six hours......... If I wash the print for another two hours
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> IF you wash that long, are you talking of one, two, a batch (of prints)
> which you turn over now and then?
> IF you call "gently running water"
I am talking about a gentle trickle with the print(s) face down in the water in
a form of leach/wash. At the rate of flow it takes about an hour to fill a 20 x
24 dish.
about a gallon a minute, this is using
> 60 gallons of water per hour, or 360 gallons JUST to make a print as
> permanent as possible. It is flagrant misuse of THE precious commodity.
> What about soaking in a tray for X minutes and then another tray and then
> another and then another etc. Would not leaching work as well as rinsing?
My method probably uses less water than yours.
> I mention this as water is perhaps the single most needed liquid on earth
> and it's pollution and reduction is scary. We as fine art (& not so fine)
> photographic artists need to use less water. For instance, Ilford's latest
> info re washing film and also paper is VERY informative.
>
> Do not mean to rankle feathers here ... maybe being from California and
> just spending 6 days hiking in the Grand Canyon and observing the drought
> in Mexico, Arizona and New Mexico (worst in over 100 years) has made me
> sensitive.
Anybody who used the practice, as you interpreted it, in the drought ridden
areas with scant rainfall that you mention, would deserve to be put in jail.
You should remember that it does tend to rain just a little bit more in the UK.
It comes of being an island off the western side of a landmass between 50 and
60 degrees North. Our water is probably used three times on its way down the
Thames.
Perhaps Compuserve addresses should say which country one is in.
No offence taken and I support what you say.
Terry King.
> Jack Fulton
> ***The eye is the Pencil of Nurture***
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