The brass connections for water supply is a improvement over most designs.
I got one after all and I’m very happy with it so far. Well built and very well packed.
Good to hear. Which configuration did you order?
The brass connections for water supply is a improvement over most designs.
I got the
I got a 10 slot 10x12 inch washer including the air diffuser adaptor which produces lots of bubbles to create friction around the print while using less water. I haven't tested the washing efficiency yet to compare running the washer with and without the air diffuser but will post my findings when done. I have noticed that the friction is less in the outer slots than in the center, so moving prints between slots during the wash may be required. Of course this would be less of an issue with washers containing less than 10 slots.
The slots are wide enough so I can wash two prints back to back in each, allowing me wash 20 at a time.
I'm not convinced that the drain feed location or orientation makes any substantive difference in print washing - washing is a diffusion/exchange process, and as long as there aren't significant locations of poor exchange in the washer and the water temperature is adequate, I suspect the drain location makes no difference whatsoever. Cascade washers seem potentially useful for long printing days, but I can't imagine there's any difference in the actual efficacy of the wash.
Martin Reed's "Mysteries of the Vortex" is the most useful wash resource I am personally aware of.
Mysteries Of The Vortex (Part One) - Film and Darkroom User
Mysteries Of The Vortex (Part One) Articleswww.film-and-darkroom-user.org.uk
I can offer no feedback on Under Red Light washers specifically, but I think the options are more or less limited to them or Versalab for a new washer. The Under Red Light washers are certainly nicer looking, for what that's worth.
I can offer no feedback on Under Red Light washers specifically, but I think the options are more or less limited to them or Versalab for a new washer. The Under Red Light washers are certainly nicer looking, for what that's worth.
As a matter of interest. I have photos of my two daughters taken when they were 10 and 11 yrs old and printed on Agfa paper..As far as I remember they were washed in a wahing up bowl under ordinary slow running cold water for round 30 mins.
The photos are as good today as they were then (from an archive point of view).
The girls are now aged 66 and 65. As regards water.. in those days we had plenty = we lived in Wales.. (very large reservoirs) - -when it rained it rained
The print washers in vertical design have two significant advantages: space saving foot print and easy permanent setup for feed and drain that can remain in place once installed. Everything else is a makeshift.
Quite.....but in those days such luxuries were not universally available. Even the newspaper I worked on earlier ..used to sling the prints into a large kitchen sink and washed them that way! and after publication were put into ordinary brown envelopes and into the library for future use....
PS. I forgot to mention ..
It was develop...quick rinse into the fixer and ( I used i plain hypo crystals..no fancy additives.)
......as regards my own photos in those days..I never though I would live to reach 92......
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