From: Bill Collins (photo@intrex.net)
Date: 12/16/01-03:20:46 PM Z
How bad are they? How good do you want them to look when you are done?
If the only metal parts are the springs, I would think they could be cleaned up enough to work with just a few minutes work with steel wool. If the wood is dirty, it could be cleaned up with a damp rag, or any number of household cleaners. If you want them to look like new, it could take a lot more work, but a functional exposure frame doesn't have to look good.
Bill
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Marco Pauck <marco@pauck.de>
Reply-to: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 21:10:26 +0100
>I just got a bunch of old exposure frames. They obviously spent their
>last decades in a dark cellar and are in a bad shape, the metal parts
>are corroded, the wooden dirty (but not distorted).
>
>Because of their bad condition and their not very attractive sizes,
>I don't want to spend much time on them, therefore I'm thinking about
>either throwing them away or using a brute force approach to get them
>back to working condition without much hassle (e.g. spending hours
>with polishing the metal parts).
>
>Any recommendations?
>Maybe there's some sort of magic fluid to simply dip the frames into? ;-)
>
> Marco
>
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