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I use a heater tray/matt that is designed for home brewers to stand gallon bottles of fermenting wine on, to speed the fermenting process up. So it is designed to cope with spilled liquids. Not an expensive item. No thermostat, but I insulate it with a folded newspaper....
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35C is OK for RA4 printing so unless your trays are needed for colour neg sheet film developing then I'd have thought 35C is OK. Actually RA4 in some kits( Kodak for one at least) can be done at room temp of around 20C and the Tetenal film kit claims developing can be done at I think 30C
There may be good reasons why you need 40C of course but just a thought on my part Mike |
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This one had the benefit of a thermostat from a cooker wired in, well he was a service electrician with SEEB, fitting and repairing cookers. Peter |
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This one had the benefit of a thermostat from a cooker wired in, well he was a service electrician with SEEB, fitting and repairing cookers.
You were posh! I bet you had central heating and a bedroom all to yourself as well |
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Thanks, Alan Clark, there's a home brew shop nearby that I have had a few bits and pieces from, I'll ask them.
Regards, Mark. |
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Can I be contentious and say I've never had a need for dish warmers at all. Chemistry is at constant darkroom temps and I've never had a problem. Even developing sheet film, I mix develoer to its temperature and go from there.
But then again my darkroom is a stone-flagged 'cellar' so tends to be proper 'pub' temperature! Phil |
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Well, Phil, yes, I manage without but I'm doing some extended print runs archiving a customers collection on fibre paper, so I tried my dishwarmer (and it failed) because it makes life easier managing the developer temperature when ambient is 15C and the bench is cold. I find fibre paper to be more temperature sensitive in developer than RC for some reason. Agree that a dishwarmer isn't necessary - and I hardly ever use one - but it can be useful at times like this when I want to process batches as consistently as I can - I won't go into wash temperatures and how I manage that.
Regards, Mark |
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