Re: infrared question

[boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Long)]

On Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:21:05 +0100, Bobbi Doyle wrote:

|My sink is not in my darkroom, but it is about eight feet away. You =
could
|mix your chemicals outside of the dark area, and carry them into your =
room
|to pour into your trays. My situation is not ideal, but it enables me to
|do my own work.

The biggest advantage of having the sink in the darkroom, I think, is
that you don't have to worry about spills.  Whether the paper trays
are on the drainboard or in the sink, you just flush down when you're
done and that's it.

When I lived in an appartment I used a long table that I didn't mind
getting stained and covered it with newspapers as a second-best
solution, because the kitchen was the darkroom and its sink/drainboard
weren't big enough for 11 x 14 trays.  The shortcoming there was that
the enlarger had to go on that table, preventing the ghettoization of
wet and dry functions--which is recommended by every book on building
a darkroom I've ever seen, and with good reason.

The ideal solution, in my mind is one I've never encountered in
practice: a long, narrow darkroom with all the wet functions on one
side (long sink plus drainboard) and all the dry ones (countertop) on
the other.  I'd say about 6 x 8-10 feet (2.5 x 3 meters) should be
fine.  I've worked in a number of darkrooms that were inefficient
because they were too large.  Of course, shelf, drawer, and cupboard
space must be applied liberally.

Bob Long
(boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx)

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