What's in your fixer?

[Christopher Walrath]

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Well, I printed on Sunday. My daughter was sick last Wed. My son got it last Fri. My wife, Sat. Me, about halfway through the session. Nose started to run and when I print, I have things arranged so that I must lean over my fix tray in order to develop and the stop. Once, about ten prints from the end, I was agitating a print in the developer and my nose dripped into the fixing tray. Well, it didn't affect the prints afterwards. But it got me to wondering. What odd matter has found its way into your chemistry over the years?

 

[KWhitmore]

cat hair...often.

 

[David Brown]

I was agitating a print in the developer and my nose dripped into the fixing tray.

Thanks for sharing ...

 

[dancqu]

But it got me to wondering. What odd matter has found
its way into your chemistry over the years?

Any specific chemistry in mind? Details?
Symptoms; runny noses, that's it?
Odors, rashes? Dan

 

[mwdake]

Dog hair always seems to show up in my fixer.
I am thinking of giving the dog a coat of varnish.

 

[Martin Aislabie]

cat hair...often.

I've had cat hair in my fixer - with cat still attached

The silly thing ran in to the darkroom and jumped up onto the work surface to have a nose around and jumped straight into the fixer tray.

There followed a 5 minute chase round the house as I tried to catch and upset and indignant cat with at least one paw wet with fixer.

After I admitted defeat, we just let her out into the garden to sort herself out.

For something that seem to spend 20+hrs a day asleep in any sunny stop available around the house, they can move with an impressive turn of speed and amazing agility

She was very cool towards me for quite a while afterwards - as if I had somehow tricked her into doing it.

As the saying goes "Curiosity killed the cat"

And she is still curious about the Darkroom but hasn't tried jumping up onto the work surface since. - even she isn't quite that thick

Martin