Dust busting!!! Please help

[jp80874]

Just took some 8x10 negatives out of the drier and was putting them in Print File sleeves when I remembered one additional dust busting step I take. I put the Print File sleeves in a three ring notebook by subject or university course I am taking. Then I put a large ziplock bag around the three ring notebook and fasten it. No dust creeps in while I am away. These bags are the 2.5 US gallon size. I hope you have a similar item there.

John Powers

 

[argus]

I have dust plus three cats. You can come and clean up my house!

Ditto.
I try not to vacuum clean the darkroom because I could not use it for 2 days afterwards

 

[mark]

I swear I am not being a pig. Really I'm not.

I met a guy who would print with no shirt on. He decided that the dist was being stirred by and coming off his shirts. He was anally clean in the DR; hepa filter, the whole nine yards. still got dust. Printing topless helped.

I have been told this same thing for loading film holders in the DR, so it can't be that uncommon. Oh Yeah. You have to use lotion before you go in. He lotions up with latex gloves on to avoid getting grease on his fingers. He was kind of an odd duck but since folks load film holders this way, maybe not as odd as I thought.

 

[PeterB]

I met a guy who would print with no shirt on. He decided that the dist was being stirred by and coming off his shirts.

The major component of dust is dead skin cells, In fact, every minute 30,000-40,000 dead skin cells fall from your body [1]. So unless you have other plans, forget about the idea of getting naked in the darkroom !

[1] see Dead Link Removed

 

[mark]

That was why he lotioned up.

 

[PeterB]

That was why he lotioned up.

Oh. For some reason it didn't click with me that he put lotion all over his upper body... yuck