From: Robkin, Eugene (erobkin@uwc.edu)
Date: 04/01/03-02:10:25 PM Z
And here in Wisconsin there is a story about a new cheese factory that
set up to make high quality Brie. Their product was terribly until they
plastered the walls with some good French Brie. After that things went
a lot better.
Stories like this abound in commercial food prep anecdotes. What there
may be as to an underlying truth is hard to pin down although the basic
ideas make some sense.
Gene Robkin
-----Original Message-----
From: Judy Seigel [mailto:jseigel@panix.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 1:45 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: OT: Cleaning up in the darkroom
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 FOTAR2@aol.com wrote:
> This thread prompts me to ask if anyone knows what really constitutes
> contamination of trays. I have some 16x20 trays that I want to use for
Pd
> prints. They have also been used very minimally for some RC Silver
prints,
> but they still look pristine. Is there a cleaning procedure that is
reliable?
> Everything I've come across regarding this subject has been draconic
but not
> too informative, as in DON'T, DON'T, DON'T.
This thread has me wondering why not simply try a test strip -- a 21
step
processed in the tray. It will cost about 15 cents worth of metal,
certainly less than the gas to drive to the store and buy another tray,
and give you a bench mark...
This call for purity also reminds me of a story one of my college room
mates told: It was shortly after, if you could believe, WW2. Her family
baked bread in Maryland & made money during the war. So at war's end
they renovated the old bakery, including removing and replacing the old
yeast-lined tiles on the walls. She said the bread never tasted as good
again.
> I guess I can reserve these for Kallitype, but I've even seen some
cautions
> about that. Any references out there? I could use some hard facts.
Bob, you are dreaming.... in an area like this, there ARE NO HARD
FACTS,
only subjective experience, anecdote, recollection and surmise.
Judy
>
> Bob
>
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