Air blade for darkroom

esearing · Apr 22, 2017

All the cool bathrooms now use one of the dyson airblade drying systems for hands. But how cool would it be to have such a high powered dryer in the darkroom. Rinse your hands after touching chemistry and be dry in seconds. Place a wet print under there and you could have a quick dry down for review. Just sayin...

Peter Schrager · Apr 22, 2017

I was thinking the same!!

John Wiegerink · Apr 22, 2017

It would be cool to have, but I have a hard enough time with dust and don't need to kick it around anymore if possible.

ic-racer · Apr 22, 2017

I don't know. Those dryers work well on surface water and may be great for RC paper. What if you tried to dry a towel (or other item with water interspersed between fibers; fiber print). For years I dried my fiber-based test strips in a microwave oven. Now I use a conventional 'photographic paper dryer' for test prints.

darkroommike · Apr 23, 2017

We have one around the corner from the old darkroom and I used it a few times to quickly dry off Paterson reels. Much better is the Xlerator hand dryer that is in another building, much higher velocity than the Dyson but much lower coolth factor. http://www.exceldryer.com/

pdeeh · Apr 24, 2017

Good for drydown check I imagine, but those things really blast and I wouldn't want to end up with wrinkled emulsion if I tried it on a finished print.

Also, of course, they cost £600-£800 to an end user. That'd buy a lot of other photoey things. Or pay the rent for a few weeks. Or put some food on the table.

Air blade for darkroom

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