Topic: Ready to be dangerous

[Ken B: eyes, I just do eyes.]

Well I went to Silverprint on saturday and took the safety of the plastic card, picked up all the chemicals you could ever want for processing film.

So now all I have to do is get in the darkroom and sort out the shelves, find the beakers and hoses. I think I have neg sheets somewhere. The drying cabinet works, so that good.

Anything I haven't thought of ? List it below please.

cheers

[This-is-damion]

two pints of lager and a packet of crisps.

[Ed Wenn]

Anything I haven't thought of ? List it below please.

Air conditioning?
 

[Francois]

CD player?

And an old computer to keep track of everything?

 

[Ken B: eyes, I just do eyes.]

okay I can see I have come to the right place for advice 

[tijeras]

lock the kitty cat outside..... 

[Heather]

Funnel, bottles to keep fix around (since you can reuse fix a few times), definitely need a bottle for stop bath if you're using it because that really can be reused until the indicator changes...
Jugs, preferably easily identifiable from each other so you don't put fix in your tank before the developer...
You're doing sheets aren't you? Are you using trays?
Measuring cylinder. I have a 100ml and a 45ml one. 45ml one gets used for Rodinal and cyanotype chems, 100ml is for the fix. I eyeball larger amounts on my graduated jugs.

Darkbag for daylight loading? er... changing bag. whatever it's called. The thing that looks like a tshirt with elastic arms and double zipper arrangement at the bottom.

Pegs to hang up stuff to dry! though I guess that's in your cabinet...

It's hard to tell what you're missing when you don't list everything you have...

I second the air-conditioning... how else are you going to keep a nice steady 20C in this weather, blehh.

[Ken B: eyes, I just do eyes.]

Heather, the sane one of the group!n thanks for that, I have a variety of bits and pieces.

Won't need a daylight change bag

Pegs is good, storage of chemicals, odes anywhere sell ya basic cheapy plastic bottle or should I just get some of those leaky english milk containers?

Stop bath - I forgot that was a return, sweeeet.

Fix - I know how to do a clearing test

I have some photo flo - I used to just get a squirt bottle and use that, stuff me if there is nowhere around Kings Cross that is a decent hardware store / pound shop / Persian rug liquidator to buy any of this stuff.

I won't be doing sheet for a little while, I have a stainless steel LPL 120 dev tank so will be doing 120 to get all the hardware then Devware (is that a word) sorted then step up to the 5x4 plate for a serve.

I need a plastic apron, my fav cam store in Oz used to sell them for like 11 bucks, but I can't seem to find one here, if I go home with fixer stains on my good work shirts, well this whole involvement with film may be very fleeting indeed.

[Ken B: eyes, I just do eyes.]

BTW gang - this ain't hot.

Hot is when you have the fully integrated aircon on full go and the sweat is still running down you arms and into the keyboard.

Or you go outside and it is so hot and dry even the ants have given it up for the day.

[LT]

but Ken - it's all relative - it's bloody hot compared to the paltry wet murky summers we usually get.

[Francois]

Pegs is good, storage of chemicals, odes anywhere sell ya basic cheapy plastic bottle or should I just get some of those leaky english milk containers?

I tend to like either the square cranberry juice containers or those wine bags they sell at wine making supplies.

Not all plastics are good for storing chemicals. Some let oxygen slowly get through their membrane and oxidize your chemicals.

Check out this link for more info on the subject
http://silvergrain.org/Photo-Tech/plastic.html