You said:.
"Maybe not enough people use contact lenses & steam irons".
Kitchens, babies and batteries are the main consumers of purified water in the
domestic market. For steam irons you can use what's left in the kettle after
making the tea.
"But the question you didn't answer: Since it's going into tap water for
the development anyway, why use purified to make the gelatine? Is
deionized so pure it goes into shock when exposed to vulgar reality? "
Because the chlorine in the tap water, put there to keep us pure, will react
with the salts in the sensitisers. Add tap water to silver nitrate and the
liquid turns milky with silver chloride.
"Also, Terry, remember the carets! I have trouble separating my questions
from your answers, others presumably ditto."
I have had to abandon the carets as they come with the 'excerpt' button which
only allows a few sentences before arbitrarily ending the letter. Are there
other compuserve persons, Klaus ?, who have the same difficulty ?
"And permit me to tack on a note about acrylic-bichromate here, to save folks
having to pay for another message: After you told me that you used
acrylic paint for gum printing, I tried it also, Terry. I found it did
work within limits -- it tended to need brushing (which I try to avoid)
and not if you saturated the color, as I like to do. All of which could be
adjusted to for a reason -- but I didn't see the advantage... (Which is..... ?)"
The way I do it, it seems to have all the advantages of other methods with very
few of the diadvantages. But then as a wishy washy tea drinking pom who likes
water-colours in the English tradition, I prefer my saturated colours in the
flower garden or in Mexico. Zinnias are OK. The man next door is sellng his
beautiful DS, sob. The ibis is sharing a mute swan's nest, the parakeets are
making more noise than the rooks and Randall Webb's next door neighbor's house
burnt down as I was passing this afternoon coming back from the DIY shop with a
limed oak loo seat. And they are also dancing in the streets following Germany's
defeat of Croatia. The scent of the musk roses and the honeysuckle and the
philadelphus are gently suffused with the smell of over barbecued fat. It's all
an excuse for a piss up. A Lancaster flew over last Sunday. This is reality in
Twickenham 1996.
Terry