Re: 87c BTFRs?, HIE Slides, and a temperature question...

[Fred Greenspan <greenspan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon,

Can't help with the filter question, as I just got into IR myself, but maybe
on the water temperature problem I can offer a suggestion. You probably don't
want to have one of those water temp controls installed in an apartment,
unless you own it and don't plan on leaving for a long time. So, let me
suggest you look at the Jobo rotary processors. I have a small one, a CPE-2
with Lift. The current model is a CPE2-Plus with better motor. I put the kit
in that allows six square 500ml bottles to be sitting in the tempered water
bath, instead of four plus four vials. I have an extra set of six 500ml
plastic bottles that fit in the bottle wells. I fill the extra set with water
and as I'm processing I replace the bottle of chemical (dev,stop,fix,wash) I
am currently using with a bottle of water. By the time I get to the fix I have
five bottles of water sitting in the tempered bath slots and one bottle of
Permawash. I refill these bottles as I use them with water as close to
processing temp as I can get and put them back in the CPE2 wells. I try to go
through six rinse cycles before Permawash, and then six more afterwards, and
then wetting agent and up for drying. The larger Jobo models would allow for
print drums as well as film, so you could wash your prints in the same way,
but they are more expensive. Personally, I don't worry as much about print
wash water temperature, as I do about film. HTH!-Fred

Jon Witsell wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I just moved from a house with a
> darkroom in the bathroom to a small apartment without a darkroom. The
> problem here is that I can’t seem to keep the temperature of the water
> constant. In the house, once set, the water stayed constant to the 1/2
> degree. In my apartment, when someone in the building flushes the toilet my
> temp. goes crazy.
> 
> Any suggestions on any of the above would be most welcome!
> 
> Jon
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