What's the worst 'rigged' thing in your darkroom?

[Stan. L-B]

At one time the darkroom itself.
It is a Sweedish timber building that is nice and warm in winter and keeps quite cool in summer. It was OK for the first year, then the wood started to settle, leaving gaps between the planking - not so dark anymore.
I have since made it light proof by sealing the planks with a sealant gun, it took a week to get it right. All's well that ends well....

 

[Julia819]

I had a nice big room in my basement with lots of counter space and storage and ventalation nd stain-proof counters and a big sink and...windows. Now I could have just tacked some heavy duty plastic over my windows, but it's hard to drill into brick. So I cut some ply-wood to the size of the windows, wedged the in, and went around the seams with a few layers of black duct tape. It looks funny, but I can print in the day now, so whatever.

Julia

 

[bmac]

ok, I think I've hit a new low in the race for the most rigged darkroom. I print out in my garage, but can only do it during the night because of light leaks out of a vent above the garage door. It's about 18X18" and is made of translucent plastic. I was cleaning out the other area of the garage when I found a bunch of lighting gels. I found a fresh sheet of really deep red. I got on my ladder and stapled it to the studs next to the vent. Now I have a really big safelight about 20' from my darkroom area. I will teast it with Azo later this week. I think it might actually work. )

 

[FrankB]

The worst rigged thing in my darkroom is the ventilation system.

I open the door between prints. (When I remember.)

 

[bobfowler]

Many years ago, I lived in a small 1 bedroom apartment. There was a closet in the living room that was actually part of the overhang of the entrance stairway. For a full year, I was doing all of the B&W work for a local camera store in that space! I had an Omega D2 with coldlight head on a 3 foot deep shelf overhanging the stairs and 8X10 processing trays on metal storage shelves! THAT really sucked! At least when I processed film, I only had to be in there to load the tanks... I still can't believe how much work I did in that small space.