Re: Keeping Things Hot (It's a Crock)
Joachim (joachim@microdsi.net)
Tue, 06 May 1997 08:21:01 -0400
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> From: Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>
> To: E. Carroll Hale II <arthale@ACS.EKU.EDU>
> Cc: Alt-Photo <alt-photo-process@cse.unsw.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: Keeping Things Hot (It's a Crock)
> Date: Tuesday, May 06, 1997 12:15 AM
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>
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> On Mon, 5 May 1997, E. Carroll Hale II wrote:
> > Crock pots are relatively cheap and seem to hold temperatures fairly
> > evenly. This works well for our color processing (tube processors) but
> > you might find this a bit of a problem for tray processing.
Continually
> > shifting solutions from tray to crock and back can be troublesome.
Still,
> > it's a way.
>
> I see crock pots from time to time at the local thrift shop (now that
> they're no longer trendy) where they're even cheaper...
>
> I've had a lot of trouble keeping developer hot for silver negatives, as
I
> needed for one process -- in winter with the darkroom about 65F, it cools
> after one negative -- and when your waterbath is a 16 by 20 or even 20 by
> 24 inch tray and you are a frail weak woman, you don't enjoy the
continual
> lifting and dumping to change after each... Two coils solved the problem
> handily -- taped on so they didn't touch the side of the plastic tray.
> But now I'm going to look into the aquarium heater....
>
> Also, when gelatine-sizing paper it's important to keep the gelatine as
> liquid as possible, about 140 F, which is more of a problem because the
> sheets are bigger, so constant filling & dumping of waterbath too much,
> and in any event doesn't do the job because the surface in contact with
> the air is so large. In other words, where these days would one get a
> waterbed heater? (Definitely passe here in the Village.....)
>
> And since I use a hairdryer over my studio sink, maybe I should get one
of
> those ground fault interrupters. Where are they?
>
> Judy
>