Re: DIY Tray Siphon for print washing

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From: "Sandy King" <sanking@clemson.edu>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: DIY Tray Siphon for print washing

>
> Kodak used to make a siphon for print washing. Has this
> item been
> discontinued? As I recall, the price was very reasonable.
> Mine is
> many years old, but works like new.
>
> Sandy
>
   I don't know if its discontinued but the price went way
up in recent years. There are tons of them available used
for maybe $5 to $20 (at local sales). Even the very old
black rubber ones
work well. I use tray syphons for washing RC paper, usually
in an 11x14 or 16x10 tray. If you wash several prints or
sheet films at a time you must manually keep the prints or
film separated. A bother.
   I measured the turn around time in a 16x20 tray using
dye, with reasonable flow the dye is reduced to invisibility
in about 2 minutes.

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@ix.netcom.com