Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Some of the TV news film processors that I worked with in the '70s used air squeegees between solutions. Very effective and gentle on the film. Unfortunately some processors used rubber blades which, once they became contaminated with chemical residue, became "steel wool squeegees". Mike D Original Message: ----------------- From: Marty Deveney benedenia at gmail.com Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:25:06 +1030 To: lug at leica-users.org Subject: Re: [Leica] Film development ? > The absolute best post wash water removal system I ever saw > was the air squeegee on the Kodachrome processing machine > that I ran (third shift) back in college. > Very cool! Agreed. This device was similar to a tiny Dyson Airblade and when the humidity was low, the film came off very close to dry. They even had one built in to the K-Lab Kodachrome minilab things that never really took off. Of course Kodachrome processing lines varied widely, so maybe the one I used wasn't like the one you used. Marty _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web LIVE ? Free email based on Microsoft? Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE