From: Linda Phillips (linda__phillips@hotmail.com)
Date: 05/03/00-09:43:33 AM Z
Don't be ridiculous. I certainly don't need any defense from the likes of
you.
Judy has done more to advance the cause of alt process than anybody in
recent years. She deserves much better than to be threatened by some cheap
vigilante.
Now, be a good troll and crawl back under your bridge.
>From: Thor Bols <thorbols@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Dichromates, ferric oxalate, and the EPA
>Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 04:16:41 +0000 (GMT)
>
>"I discarded it (directly into Farmer Brown's well)"
>
>Is this supposed to be funny? A little tongue-in-cheek humour? C'mon.
>Judy, don't you ever tire of being such a sanctimonious boor? This woman
>Linda came into this list with some valid concerns. Everything from the
>MSDS, to Farbers book on Alt Process, to the people at Photographer's
>Formulary, to the US (and other) governments warn of the dangers of
>dichromates. How do you react: by gleefully reiterating that you are
>above
>the law. Now that she's been lectured by everyone on her supposed
>paranoid,
>irrational, and misplaced concerns, you start poking her with a stick.
>
>I'm not going to put a whole lot of effort into it, but if, by chance you
>ARE visited by a representative of the EPA, well you can thank me!
>
>
>
>
>
>On Tue, 2 May 2000, Eric Neilsen wrote:
>>...the Ware/Malde process does not REQUIRE the dry and rehumidify. It
>>does show how the humidity will affect color and speed of the print. Ware
>>also provides, through that paper, specific color that can be achieved by
>>specific humidities.
>>
>>I think that we can all agree that the eye can judge whether a print has a
>>desired look. If one can get that color by simply drying a coating with
>>cool air and quickly printing, or by drying and rehumidify, each method
>>can
>>work well. I see an advantage in slowly adding humidity, 30 minutes or
>>so.
>>In that, one should be able to achieve a more even humidity level
>>throughout
>>the paper. I have seen this as one fall back in Zia type print from
>>reports
>>on this list.
>
>
>But a propos of hair dryer drying and SAFETY -- I've read one shouldn't
>hair dryer pt-pd because chunks of metal could flake off and float into
>your respiratory tract... Seemed far fetched to me, but it's said.
>
>Also, apropos of the ferric oxalate tests -- some years ago when i had a
>short spell of kallitype & pt-pd, I used the k ferricyanide test on my B&S
>ferric oxalate. It turned blue, & I discarded it (directly into Farmer
>Brown's well) and ordered some more. I mentioned this to Melody on the
>telephone & she told me "that potassium ferricyanide test doesn't work
>with the Bostick & Sullivan ferric oxalate." Which is to say, it was
>apparently still good.
>
>Judy
>
>
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