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I hang all eight strips up in the kitchen and let them air-dry.

Wow - I'm impressed you can still get reasonably clean Negs :smile:

When I tried to dry film out in the open I got nailed for dust and cat hair (we have 4 cats)

Bought a Durst UT100 film drying tent which successfully overcame the dust and cat hair issues but it is now my process choke point

Martin
 
I've done 3 with 3 different pushes for b+w, though only 1 for color.
 
Wow - I'm impressed you can still get reasonably clean Negs :smile:

When I tried to dry film out in the open I got nailed for dust and cat hair (we have 4 cats)

Well, we have three cats and a baby boy, all in
a hopelessly overstuffed Manhattan apartment.
In a decade of shooting and processing film in
this space, dust has never been a problem for
the negatives.
 
I tried doing three once. It worked, but NEVER AGAIN! Too much stress and hassle. I can do two OK, as long as I stagger the times. I stagger one tank to be five minutes behind the other, and let one batch of film sit in water after the stop bath. Once the second tank catches up, I do the fixing step for both tanks with the same clock. During development, I usually miss one agitation cycle this way, but I make up for it by adding an extra one later.
 
The only way I would do more than one tank at a time is if I am stand developing. I still like using Rodenal for that, and the pace is relaxed.
 
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