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Dust control
It seems I am plagued with dust no matter what I do. When I built the new
darkroom, I caulked every drywall seam, floor and ceiling joints, plumbing entrances and exits, filtered the air intake, don't smoke in the room and I still have a huge dust and spider problem. I can't figure how the critters get in yet alone what they eat. This room is almost air tight! I'm considering an ionic air thingy...thoughts? |
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"Tom Gardner" wrote: It seems I am plagued with dust no matter what I do. When I built the new darkroom, I caulked every drywall seam, floor and ceiling joints, plumbing entrances and exits, filtered the air intake, don't smoke in the room and I still have a huge dust and spider problem. I can't figure how the critters get in yet alone what they eat. This room is almost air tight! I'm considering an ionic air thingy...thoughts? An ionic air thing may be needed depending on the conditions here in Maryland because of humidity dust sticks in place, wipe it away and its gone-but its important to cover negatives with sleeves. As for spiders who knows they creep me out. -- The things we hate most in life often turn out to be a mirror image of ourselves. Better not to hate. Findmedirectly - "infoatgregblankphoto.com" |
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:30:15 -0500, "Greg
\"Blank\" - Lizard King." wrote: As for spiders who knows they creep me out. March 18, 2006, from Lloyd Erlick, They only do that becasue you should leave them alone. They eat other insects. For creepy, millipedes are hard to beat. Spiders eat them before they run across your face while you're asleep in bed ... regards, --le ________________________________ Lloyd Erlick Portraits, Toronto. voice: 416-686-0326 email: net: www.heylloyd.com ________________________________ -- |
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Lloyd Erlick Lloyd at @the-wire. dot com wrote: On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:30:15 -0500, "Greg \"Blank\" - Lizard King." wrote: As for spiders who knows they creep me out. March 18, 2006, from Lloyd Erlick, They only do that becasue you should leave them alone. They eat other insects. For creepy, millipedes are hard to beat. Spiders eat them before they run across your face while you're asleep in bed ... regards, --le ________________________________ Lloyd Erlick Portraits, Toronto. voice: 416-686-0326 email: net: www.heylloyd.com ________________________________ Let me go on public record saying I don't usually molest spiders, if they willingly don't annoy me I let them be. On the other hand I try to catch them and humanely place them outside. That way the millipedes and centipedes get caught outside my house -- The things we hate most in life often turn out to be a mirror image of ourselves. Better not to hate. Findmedirectly - "infoatgregblankphoto.com" |
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On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:03:24 -0500, "Greg
\"Blank\" - Lizard King." wrote: Let me go on public record saying I don't usually molest spiders, if they willingly don't annoy me I let them be. On the other hand I try to catch them and humanely place them outside. That way the millipedes and centipedes get caught outside my house March 21, 2006, from Lloyd Erlick, This is good advice for how to treat newsgroup trolls! regards, --le ________________________________ Lloyd Erlick Portraits, Toronto. voice: 416-686-0326 email: net: www.heylloyd.com ________________________________ -- |
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I've always felt that dust has more of a chance of becoming airborn if
there's too little humidity. Any way to test this out? Could the spiders be coming in through the plumbing? -Lew "Tom Gardner" wrote in message . com... It seems I am plagued with dust no matter what I do. When I built the new darkroom, I caulked every drywall seam, floor and ceiling joints, plumbing entrances and exits, filtered the air intake, don't smoke in the room and I still have a huge dust and spider problem. I can't figure how the critters get in yet alone what they eat. This room is almost air tight! I'm considering an ionic air thingy...thoughts? |
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 13:17:27 -0500, "Lew"
wrote: I've always felt that dust has more of a chance of becoming airborn if there's too little humidity. Any way to test this out? March 18, 2006, from Lloyd Erlick, This is definitely true. Dryness in the darkroom is very bad. So is excessive humidity, so a measurement/readout device is very helpful. I got one from Radio Shack (now named something cuter, I think, but the products are still cheaply made). It's just an LCD in a little plastic holder. It shows temperature and relative humidity. In my place I need a humidifier in the winter and a dehumidifier in the summer. The readout tells me what the situation is, and how to set the machines as the outside temperature changes. regards, --le ________________________________ Lloyd Erlick Portraits, Toronto. voice: 416-686-0326 email: net: www.heylloyd.com ________________________________ -- |
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On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:04:33 -0500, Lloyd Erlick Lloyd at @the-wire.
dot com wrote: In my place I need a humidifier in the winter and a dehumidifier in the summer. The readout tells me what the situation is, and how to set the machines as the outside temperature changes. regards, --le ________________________________ Do you have an 'ideal' humidity level that you aim for? Paul |
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On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:24:58 GMT, Paul Mead
wrote: On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:04:33 -0500, Lloyd Erlick Lloyd at @the-wire. dot com wrote: In my place I need a humidifier in the winter and a dehumidifier in the summer. The readout tells me what the situation is, and how to set the machines as the outside temperature changes. regards, --le ________________________________ Do you have an 'ideal' humidity level that you aim for? Paul March 21, 2006, from Lloyd Erlick, Yes, I aim for any level within what may be called, undefined, the human comfort level. Basically, around fifty per cent relative humidity. Most people will be comfortable between forty and sixty per cent. Of course tastes differ. If things are too dry, static electricity and dust will become problems. Photo paper will curl. Nosebleeds will occur. If there is too much humidity, for a long enough time, lenses will grow fungus. Depending on locale and local climate, darkroom humidity will be more or less difficult to achieve at one end of the scale or the other. Right now, here in winter Toronto, it is difficult to get enough moisture into the air. The heating system constantly draws fresh air into the building (exterior air is cold and dry; raising its temperature just makes the relative humidity even lower). It is physically impossible for me to get the RH high enough to be considered "too" high. I'm amazed when I see my readout at any level beginning with a 5. If I see it's 53% RH at my enlarger, I know I need to get out more, because it has warmed up outside. During the summer in Toronto humidity tends to be high. A dehumidifier is a must, and it would be physically impossible to get the RH low enough to hurt my nose. In fact, getting it below 50 or maybe 45% RH would likely be impossible with normal household appliances. Limiting the RH at any given moment in the seasons to a narrow range like 49-51% would be very difficult and costly. Limiting it to something like 38-58 (certainly good enough for darkrooms -- what about computerinkjetrooms??) would be easy and cheap, but it would demand a little bit of (cost-free) attention from the operator (that would be us). I have an article on darkroom humidity management, under the 'technical' button in the table of contents of www.heylloyd.com. regards, --le ________________________________ Lloyd Erlick Portraits, Toronto. voice: 416-686-0326 email: net: www.heylloyd.com ________________________________ -- |
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Dust ... Is there too little humidity?
Spiders ... Coming in through the plumbing? Air filter? -Lew "Tom Gardner" wrote in message . com... It seems I am plagued with dust no matter what I do. When I built the new darkroom, I caulked every drywall seam, floor and ceiling joints, plumbing entrances and exits, filtered the air intake, don't smoke in the room and I still have a huge dust and spider problem. I can't figure how the critters get in yet alone what they eat. This room is almost air tight! I'm considering an ionic air thingy...thoughts? |
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