RE: Big B&W Film, ABS pipe

[Andy Buck <buckwiet@xxxxxxxxx>]

And do you turn out the lights to change chemicals, or did you design
a light tight spout/filler tube?

Andy

---"KOUKLIS, KERIK T"  wrote:
>
> I've been processing 7"x17" and 11"x14" film (FP4 and HP5) in
home-made
> Schedule 40 ABS-pipe processing tubes for many years now.  I work in a
> normally lighted room and the film is often in the tubes for 30
minutes
> to several  hours, depending on how many I load at a time and how
> quickly I process them.  Never had ANY problems with fogging.
> 
> Perhaps ABS is made differently than it was 25 years ago...
> 
> Kerik Kouklis
> Platinum/Palladium Photographs and Workshops
> http://www.jps.net/kerik/
> 
> 
> 
> > Be warned that black ABS drain pipe (even the thick kind)
> > passes some "Light". 
> > 
> >  I bet the tube trick would work for slow B&W materials in a
> > "darkened" room, but watch out for too much TIME in the
> > light.
> > 
> 

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