Sounds like a product that used to be available about
15 - 20 years ago called quik-dry(I think). Mostly
alcohol with some other additives. Sometimes left a
residue on the film.
--- Terence Mac Goff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hello!
>
> In my eternal quest for a handy way to dry film
> after processing, I think
> I've come across an interesting one, which seems to
> work fairly well.
>
> Thanks to the help from the folks on the list, I've
> previously
> "constructed" a pretty groovy apparatus using a suit
> cover and a few
> clothes hangers for a home-made film drying cabinet.
>
> However, i was still getting some dust (a lot less
> than before though). So
> I was reading through a book called the Ilford
> Monochrome Darkroom
> Practices by Jack Coote (A Christmas present), and
> came across an
> interesting answer.
>
> Basically, if you do your last wash of a film in the
> tank using Isopropyl
> alcohol (available from most pharmacists for about
> IR�5 per liter), you can
> dry the film in about 15 minutes (due to the lower
> evaporation point of the
> alcohol, which will displace the water in and on the
> film!)
>
> I have tried this on two test rolls of film, drying
> one in the cabinet
> above, and the other in the tank reel. Amazingly,
> the tank reel roll dried
> as quickly!
>
> anyone else had any experience with this? to my
> knowledge, it shouldn't
> damage the film in any way,
>
> Thanks,
>
> T.
>
>
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