I was thinking Ether is flammable? Hope there are no electrical spark
sources in the hood!
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In a message dated 10/28/05 1:02:20 PM, dbest@hydro.mb.ca writes:
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> There was a post awhile ago about fume hoods and I didn't have a chance to
> respond to it at the time.
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> I have recently gone into wet plate collodion and built a fume hood after
> researching everything I could find online. The exhaust is a 6" two-speed duct
> fan with a high speed of 350 CFM. The chamber is about 36W x 24D x 26H I did
> a smoke test and changed from the original 4" 80CFM fan to the larger. With
> this fan, there was no escaping smoke if the source was at least 1" back from
> the opening.
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> I have been using ether compounds in this fume hood and there is absolutely
> NO ether smell in the house. With an L.E.L. of 0.9%, I didn't want ether
> floating around uncontrolled!
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> The Wet Plate section of the darkroom is shown about half way down the
> page:
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> http://www.geocities.com/winnonad/newdarkroom/nd1.html
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>
> Dianne
>
> aka Calamity Jane
>
>
Received on Sat Oct 29 00:50:11 2005
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