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Buerste wrote:
After building a great new darkroom a couple of years ago, I'm moving to a condo. The only choice I have is to share the laundry room. It's plenty big enough but the proximity of the dryer scares me. At least it seems void of spiders. (my darkroom is plagued with them) What I did here was a positive pressure using filtered air which worked well so I'll do that again. The condo has electrostatic filtering that seems to work well. The biggest thing that scares me is cleaning the pull-out lint filter on the dryer. Maybe a sprits with a spray bottle will keep the dust down. I'm doomed. If you turn the dryer on, with the heat off, then pull the lint filter (may have to press an interlock on the door), the suction will pull most of the dust dislodged by moving the screen and send it out the vent. |
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gr wrote:
Buerste wrote: After building a great new darkroom a couple of years ago, I'm moving to a condo. The only choice I have is to share the laundry room. It's plenty big enough but the proximity of the dryer scares me. At least it seems void of spiders. (my darkroom is plagued with them) What I did here was a positive pressure using filtered air which worked well so I'll do that again. The condo has electrostatic filtering that seems to work well. The biggest thing that scares me is cleaning the pull-out lint filter on the dryer. Maybe a sprits with a spray bottle will keep the dust down. I'm doomed. If you turn the dryer on, with the heat off, then pull the lint filter (may have to press an interlock on the door), the suction will pull most of the dust dislodged by moving the screen and send it out the vent. Maybe so. So why not remove the filter screen and let all the lint go out the vent all the time? Because it clogs the vent, promoting a fire hazard. Your suggested technique would just be a bit slower. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 06:40:01 up 3 days, 16:24, 4 users, load average: 4.46, 4.87, 4.95 |
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wrote in message ... On Nov 8 2008, 7:42 am, "Lawrence Akutagawa" wrote: "Buerste" wrote in message ... "David Nebenzahl" wrote in message rs.com... On 11/7/2008 11:25 AM Nicholas O. Lindan spake thus: The lint from the drier filter depends on the design of the drier. On mine the filter pulls out from a slot on the top deck of the drier and it deposits a fine sprinkling of lint over the top of the drier every time it is pulled out. Over the years there has been quite an accumulation of lint in odd corners of the laundry room. The accumulation thickness is inverse to the distance from the drier. Same with mine (by the way, it's dryer, not drier). I think the chances the O.P. has for a lint-free darkroom are vanishingly small here. Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. I'm not thrilled with the new constraints, it'll mean a lot of diligence the keep dust under control in film processing and enlarger maintenance. But, thanks to all for good ideas! I'll add my two cents. Get one of those simple hand held sprayers and spray the air in the room with plain water perhaps about a 1/2 hour before you start working. When all that misty water has settled, wipe down the counter tops, floor, etc with a damp towel. Of course, keep the enlarger covered - even a large plastic 32 gallon trash bag will do. A good air filter in the room can also help. I have allergies. Dust is probably the worst. I realized many years ago that rain flushes a huge % of the dust & allergens from the air, which caused me to try to reduce the dust in a room w/ H2O in a spritzer bottle. 1 spraying may or may not help, but 3 applications always knocks the particles down to an acceptable level, sometimes 2 times does the trick. Some spritzer bottles work far better than other. My current bottle is a very cheap purple, poorly made one. It's the best one I've ever used for this purpose. The key seems to be the fineness of the spray. The best way I've discovered to do this is to spray over the entire square footage of the room aiming close to & parallel to the ceiling. I try to not spray over any electronic gear (computers, TVs, remotes, certainly not over photographs, high quality books etc). I usually wait 5min. between applications. It's worked for many years for me. Good luck ********************** Interesting, I will try that. I think with all the measures I will take (still in process of moving and renovating) I feel confident I won't have to buy Spotone in the gallon size. |
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