Hi Collin,
I just came up from my darkroom. I developed a roll of 120 TMY 100 that I shot this
afternoon.
My darkroom is in a section of the basement. Most of my basement is
finished, but there's a furnace room in the back that is fairly large, perhaps 10 x12
or so. The hot water heater is in there, so it
has hot and cold water. I have a bench along the wal that's mounted to the concrete
foundation wall and resting on the concrte flor. The top of the bench is constructed
of 2 x 4s, as is the framing. This bench
serves as the enlarger, paper box, and print dryer bench. It doesn't move even if
someone runs across the floor upstairs. The walls are covered with particle board that
is a dark brown in color. These are the
perforated boards that can be fitted with hooks. I hang various things from the
boards. I have stapled a few reject prints to the boards, because they're almost too
good to throw away but not good enough to
save. I know I shouldn't do this because they're reflective, but it's yet another bad
habit of mine :-). My enlarger is an Omega B22 with a Zone Vi cold head. I use a
Nikkor 50/2.8 lens for 35mm and an
Omegaron 75/? for mf film. I'm going to replace this enlarger now that I'm doing 6x7,
because the largest film holder that it can handle is 6 x 6. So for now, I'm cropping
my 6 x 7s. However the enlarger is
great for 35 mm. I may set it up alongside a new (used :-) enlarger for MF and 4x5.
Paralleling this bench in the middle of the room, I have a large folding table that
holds three 16 x 20 trays for the
chemicals. On the other wall I have baker's racks for chemicals, negative files, and
other paraphenalia. (Of course the chemical bottles and negative files are not on the
same shelf unit..)
The existing water lines down there were copper tubing, so I cut into them and
soldered in some pipes for my print washer. I bought a 20 gallon plastic tub at
K-mart, cut a hole in it about 1/3 of the
way up the side and attached a drain pipe to it. Under the drain, I placed a 16 x 20
tray. Right next to the 16 x 20 tray is a sewer. At the bottom of the tub, I have some
plastic grilles that stand a few
inches high off the bottom. The water runs in the top of the tub in prodicgious
quantitities, out the drain at the 1/3 mark, into the 16 x 20 tray, and into the
sewer. when I wash prints, I give them about 30
seconds in the 16 x 20 tray to get rid of the heavy quantities of fixer, then toss
them in the big tub. The plastic grilles keep them from sinking to the bottom and the
water circulates around them on its way
to the drain.
Paul
Collin Brendemuehl wrote:
> How are yours constructed?
>
> I'm looking @ a wood frame in a corner of the basement & stapling some inexpensive
>vinyl material to the frame. Then painting the walls black.
>
> For a dark sink for sheet film processing, I've got a grill cover that fits nicely
>over the basement's utility sink. The wife will soon be adding some sleeves to the
>cover, making it a daylight dark sink.
>
> We're getting some heavy snows right now. Looks like I'll have some evening time
>available in my "dark corner" this weekend.
>
> Collin
>
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