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small lesson: mixing laundry (darkroom related)

aste

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I couldn't find another suitable place for this and since it is darkroom related, here it is.

Anyway, I have a couple hand towels I use just for darkroom work. The other day I decided it was time to launder them, so I threw them in with some clothes I was washing. Now all the clothes smell like sodium sulphite. I tried washing the clothes again, but they still smell like sodium sulphite. Now I'm walking around smelling like old spice and sodium sulphite.

(sigh)

I won't be mixing laundry again.
 
Oxi-clean seems to get out just about any odors. It can't hurt to try at this point. I have to confess I spilled some E-6 bleach into my washer- as I was mixing it on top of the washer (dumb). It turns out E-6 bleach is an effective clothing bleach too.
 
Depends on what kind of girl you are attempting to attract I suppose...
 
Domaz, thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try.


Jeff, maybe it will be an improvement...lol.
 

Haha, my GF would kill me, I've already shrunk enough of her clothes. Anyhow, yea, I long ago established a separate darkroom laundry pile and wash cycle

BTW, a little off topic, but if you shrink a girls clothes twice, you'll never have to do laundry again ... she won't let me, hehe.
 

Take the clothes outside, put some charcoal lighter fluid on it. The toss a lit match on it. Poof the problem will go away like magic.

Steve
 

You have become wise in the ways, grasshopper.

Steve
 
Don't do what I did: pour used fixer back into a bottle containing household bleach. Then, wondering if it were bleach, not my poorly marked hypo bottle, I sniffed the jug. Had difficulty breathing for a day or two. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
 
5stringdeath said:
Yeah, well, I was married once too
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I served for 24 years and then I declared myself a free agent. The courts gave me full custody of the two children [we are talking California so you can fill in the blanks] and the ex got the dog.

The dog was really pissed.

How long did you serve?
 
John, This could turn into a long thread if I start talking about all the bonehead things I've done. Some of them are just too embarrassing to mention.

One lighter example: The first roll of film I was going to develop - I managed to get it on the reel and into the steel canister, lid on, light tight, ready to go. I turn the lights on and getting ready to poor in the developer, I pulled off the entire lid, instead of just the fill cap. sigh...first development postponed...loaded a new roll of film in the camera, pointed it out the window, shot off the roll, loaded it onto the reel, put it in the steel tank, opened the correct cap and proceeded to complete that first development.
 

7 year itch.
 
I've got a bunch of darkroom towels (old "T-Towels") and I make sure they go into the laundry at the end of each day's session.

If the chemicals don't get a chance to "set", they don't usually cause a problem.
 
Darkroom clothes

domaz said:
Oxi-clean seems to get out just about any odors.
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I'll have to give that a try.

My wife always washes my darkroom smock, my darkroom towels and the clothes I use for my general building-repairing-fixing around the house last (better known at home as my RA clothes). Even though she will often throw them all into the washer together, along with the kitchen floor mats, the sulfur smell never seems to completely leave the darkroom duds, nor transfer to the other clothes or to the kitchen mats.

I can say, for sure, that the smell doesn't transfer to the mats; when I get down on one knee and reach into the back of the 'fridge for a cold Moosehead at the end of a long repair or DR day, the mats have no odor. The Moosehead smells and tastes just fine, though...
 
aste said:
I couldn't find another suitable place for this and since it is darkroom related, here it is.

SNIP Now I'm walking around smelling like old spice and sodium sulphite.

(sigh)

I won't be mixing laundry again.
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I feel for you, I don't think you will ever get rid of the old spice smell once you use it......it a bit like trying to get brylceem out of your hair
 

Poor dog, but then it is better to get pissed off than pissed on.
 
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