does anybody have experience building thier own film washing tubes?
as things go with photography, even the simplest devices are outrageously marked up because of its association with image emulsification. so i guess instead of going out and buying some equipment, some of it could be built with a trip to the hardware store and some elbow grease.
anyhow, i was looking at film washing tubes online and find that most of them are painfully expensive, despite their simple design. so i got to thinking about what building a filmwashing tube would involve, wether i'd get better results from one i'd buy, etc. this also lead me to think about building materials.
most film washers i've used were made of something that looked like acrylic, but i haven't seen any piping or tubing like that at the home depot, so i'm not sure if i can manage to get some. so, i was wondering if pvc piping would do the trick. i heard somewhere that pvc pipe was inappropriate for water because that it was in some way toxic. i guess i'm wondering if building a film washer built from pvc would mess me up in getting archival quality negatives. what other alternatives are there?
as things go with photography, even the simplest devices are outrageously marked up because of its association with image emulsification. so i guess instead of going out and buying some equipment, some of it could be built with a trip to the hardware store and some elbow grease.
anyhow, i was looking at film washing tubes online and find that most of them are painfully expensive, despite their simple design. so i got to thinking about what building a filmwashing tube would involve, wether i'd get better results from one i'd buy, etc. this also lead me to think about building materials.
most film washers i've used were made of something that looked like acrylic, but i haven't seen any piping or tubing like that at the home depot, so i'm not sure if i can manage to get some. so, i was wondering if pvc piping would do the trick. i heard somewhere that pvc pipe was inappropriate for water because that it was in some way toxic. i guess i'm wondering if building a film washer built from pvc would mess me up in getting archival quality negatives. what other alternatives are there?