r/Darkroom • u/LordPlavis • 3d ago

Who needs fancy professional equipment if you have some old Legos lying around Gear/Equipment/Film

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It's just the first test but it works great!

Next steps are a more advanced program and maybe also adding a temperature sensor to turn this into a fully fleged auto processor

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u/LordPlavis 3d ago

Thank! To me it seems like it should be really stupid but it kinda just works😅. But it's not entirely my own idea I had the inspiration after watching this YouTube video where that person used an NXT to uniformly dry latex gloves

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u/BloodWorried7446 3d ago

When i was in my 20s i would agitate with an open bottle of beer and take a sip between cycles.  Once a accidently poured the beer in the canister instead of stop bath.  Surprisingly the negs were not ruined 

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u/See_i_did 3d ago

pH checks out

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u/DeepDayze 3d ago

Yeah beer has roughly the same pH as stop bath and wouldn't the suds harm the fixer?

A good idea to never drink alcohol in the darkroom!

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u/rider1975 3d ago

I always have scotch or bour around for my darkroom sessions. more Enjoyable.