IKEA film & paper drying rack!

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It's a blessing and a curse living within walking distance of an IKEA... but they do have some nifty stuff for making a darkroom neat and tidy! I installed this kitchen drying rack in my darkroom last week, and it works really really well - nice and compact, but I've hung 10 films from it without problems - many more will fit...! Astute observers will notice on the middle roll of film, the couple of frames shot with the lens cap on

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Good idea,but like the way you have arranged your clothes pins horizontally at the bottoms of film strip.
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Hi Marc,

That looks like a much better idea than the wire coat hanger with foldback paper clips hanging on the edge of the shower recess where it can be knocked down by a breath of air - as in someone opening the door fast. Do you still have the packaging, so that you can tell us the Ikea product name? Luckily I am more than a half hour drive from (the same) Ikea because the other person who shares my life and income loves a trip to Ikea as much as she loves a trip to Costco.

Cheers, Peter.
 

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Another idea-- they have these square bags that keep dust off of clothes-I don't have a pic but some one at my darkroom coop has used one of those in combination with an old salon blow dryer to make a nifty dust free rapid film dryer.
 

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Not damning just bad grammar,the clothes pins arranged horizontal looks like a good idea.

Mike
 

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If it's like any of the other Ikea products I've bought, when you get it home and check the parts list against what they've supplied, you'll find several components missing
 

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benjiboy said:
If it's like any of the other Ikea products I've bought, when you get it home and check the parts list against what they've supplied, you'll find several components missing
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We should get together, Benji... I usually have parts left over. I'm saving them to see what I can build.
 

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My wife has a clothes hanger with clips that is something like this one:

Ikea Pressa

Which I found to be good for hanging stuff up to dry. But now she wants to use it more, so I have to get one of my own.
 

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Toffle said:
We should get together, Benji... I usually have parts left over. I'm saving them to see what I can build.
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I bought a Futon at Ikea a few years ago Toffle and the drawings and assembly instructions were so bad it took me two and half days to put it together, and I wasn't an amateur, in my early career I was an apprentice trained engineer and a member of The Institute Of Mechanical Engineers, the professional body, well used to reading engineering drawings and assembling components from them .
 
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Marc. It's pure genius. I use Ikea frames for my photos. I love the store.
 
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Thanks everyone! Here's another couple of pics so you can see the context of the thing in my squishy darkroom! Placed a bit above head height, there's heaps of length for 135 rolls to dry.

As for IKEA - I've had both good and bad experiences there, nonetheless - all the benches in this darkroom are from there also... (stainless steel kitchen benches - reasonably inexpensive - makes it all look more like a lab!!)

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That's the problem. They're stuff is meant for amateurs.
 

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I must be a genuine amateur: assembled a dining table with drop sides, a kitchen trolley with drawers and 2 bookcases in a day.

Jon Stewart did a really funny routine about Julian Assange's Swedish charges last week, pleading that the fictitiously likely IKEA supplied condom was not easily assembled from the usual IKEA sheet, which the art dept had mocked up.
 

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Marc, very good. I may, if and when I rejuvenate or makeover my darkroom, think about that item.

We used to walk down to the end of our street, then a right turn and 300 metres later we were in IKEA.

Anyone who visits will recognise IKEA products in every room of the house and my business room is chock-a-block IKEA stuff. Cheap, versatile and actually works.

Since they closed the Moorabbin IKEA store and opened the new one in Richmond, we haven't been there at all. Impossible to get to, combined with impossible parking, maybe that is why they are now building a new store in the outer suburbs again?

Mick.
 
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