Truck Mount Portable Darkroom!

[dbonamo]

Take a look at this, complete portable darkroom..

http://www.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=3431307&convertTo=USD

 

[thisismyname09]

looks like its bigger than my current darkroom. I'd try to buy it if it weren't in utah.

 

[AgX]

Is the cabinet in picture #15 a refrigerator?

 

[Robert Hall]

I am in Utah and I want one!

 

[fschifano]

Well, that looks pretty neat. There's even a built in air conditioner. No doubt you'd need it all sealed up in a tin can like that. There doesn't seem to be much room to set up trays in there for proper printing. There is a stabilization processor for making quick and dirty prints. Park it in the back yard, hook up some water, electricity, and waste lines, and you're good to go. Now how are you going to get that thing home, and how much to get it shipped?

 

[AgX]

A truck equipped with a small foldable crane, or a truck and forklift at home would do.
One could design a crank-up frame with swivelling studs, so any truck around with a loading platform could take it.

What about that refrigerator? Am I right?

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

These seem to come up for sale as government surplus periodically. I wonder if anyone buys and uses them, given the cost of moving them vs. building a darkroom shed.

 

[AgX]

David, those are less an option for stationary use, but for situations were moving the darkroom, even regularly, is an issue.

 

[wy2l]

DoD calls "portable" anything with a handle.

 

[fschifano]

What about that refrigerator? Am I right?

I don't think so. I mean, why would you have one in there anyway? So the soldiers manning it have someplace to keep their beer cold? The guys using this portable darkroom were not out in the wilderness alone. This thing wasn't meant for long term storage of sensitized materials and it has an A/C unit to keep it from getting too hot. It was designed for processing film and for making quick and dirty stabilization process prints, not archival artwork.

In short, having a refrigerator in there makes about as much sense as teats on a bull.