Hi Livio, did you see there is someone in Denmark selling 34 rolls/122m of N75: https://www.ebay.de/itm/294841390126 All the best for your project, Thomas.
Thomas Bartels https://vimeo.com/thomasbartels > Ugo Bo <[email protected]> hat am 11.03.2022 00:24 geschrieben: > > > Many thanks to everybody. > > After my last post I got my hands on another "new" Lomo (UPB-1A) and it > actually works differently from the other "new" one: the lid comes on and off > much more easily, there's a wider gap to leave liquid to fill the tank > quickly, like in the "old" model. Now development comes even as expected. > > So seems working tolerances were quite shabby. > > I think I'll follow Friedemann advice for the other tank: I'll rework the > center of the bottom spiral a bit to keep less distance between it and the > tank's bottom. > > About agitation (up and down or gently rotation) I think is more a matter of > religion: I'm always have been of the up and down church, and I'm not > concerned about light spill, since I work only with a dim red light in my > darkroom, not directly over the tank. > > Just to let you know: the project we are working on had to start with Orwo > UN54 stock, but since we weren't able to buy anything yet we started with the > stock we had: double-x that we decided to unconventionally try as reversal > (PQ-Universal + Permanganate bleach). It came not so bad, actually (after I > solved the tank issues). > > Best > Livio > > Il giorno gio 10 mar 2022 alle ore 09:15 Adrian Cousins <[email protected] > mailto:[email protected] > ha scritto: > > > I’ve had that issue with my first (used) UPB-1A but I think it was > > possibly something to do with the smaller components - screw, spacer etc > > coming from a different tank (possibly a previous version), I bought a > > couple of brand new tanks and I’m able to move the spiral up and down as > > well as rotate on both of them with no problems, the lids are slightly > > loose so you can lift them up on one side to let air in, this allows you to > > pour chems in and out quickly > > > > > > On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 at 13:44, Ethan Berry <[email protected] > > mailto:[email protected] > wrote: > > > > > I have sometimes filled the tank through the drain hose using a funnel at > > > the end of the hose. Drain it as you normally do. > > > The "old" tanks that I have usually hold about 1,800 ml. I would guess > > > that the "new" tank holds slightly less. > > > If the spindle won't go up and down, perhaps spinning it would work for > > > agitation. > > > > > > Ethan Berry > > > ANYEYE Film Lab > > > Montserrat College of Art > > > 23 Essex Street, > > > Beverly, MA 01915 > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 5:23 AM Ugo Bo <[email protected] > > > mailto:[email protected] > wrote: > > > > > > > Hallo everybody > > > > > > > > I've been happily using a 50ft Lomo tank for years, mine is the "old" > > > > model (UPB-1 - version 1). Now a friends of mine bought the "new" > > > > model (UPB-1A or version 2) and I'm teaching him how to use it. > > > > > > > > As some of you probably now, the "new" one has a lower body than the > > > > "old" one (70mm against 78mm, here's the difference explained: > > > > https://sites.google.com/site/olexserviceskinor/processing-of-a-cine-film-in-home-laboratory/spiral-processing-tanks/upb-1-upb-1a-spiral-tanks?authuser=0). > > > > > > > > In the past I processed only super8 also with a "new" model, and it > > > > worked fine, but now, processing 16mm, I realized that a problem > > > > arises: the "new" one leaves a very tiny room for liquid to pass, so > > > > it takes a very long time to fill the tank, a problem that I never > > > > experienced with my "old" one. Long filling time makes developement > > > > uneven. > > > > > > > > When processing 2 x 16mm the problem is even worse: the gap is really > > > > thin, liquid takes ages to enter, and is also impossible to move the > > > > spiral up and down (my way of agitation). > > > > > > > > I thought of filling the tank first with liquid, and then dropping the > > > > spiral in the dark in the liquid, but is quite an hassle. > > > > > > > > Did you have the same issue? And what's your trick? > > > > > > > > Best > > > > Livio > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Forum mailing list > > > > [email protected] mailto:[email protected] > > > > https://filmlabs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/forum > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Forum mailing list > > > [email protected] mailto:[email protected] > > > https://filmlabs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/forum > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Forum mailing list > > [email protected] mailto:[email protected] > > https://filmlabs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/forum > > > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org >
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