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Home and Bargain and Asda do 4 for £1 I often use them as we have gone all electric
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If you use B&W then you can crank it up to full power in complete safety - it will not fog under normal circumstances To be honest, I could not work without one. You will I think be using FUJI paper which I do not personally like. Fuji paper is slightly more sensitive to exposure than the Kodak so my distances may not be correct . The Kodak I use is only available in bulk rolls, so have made a light tight dispenser to enable me to use bulk rolls of 12" wide by 80 Meters of Kodak paper. That length gives me the equivalent of 195 sheets of 12x16 paper and that makes it about 25% the cost of boxed Fuji equivalent. Last edited by John King; 22nd January 2017 at 11:02 AM. |
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Heating element
You may find that they are a bespoke item and unique to NOVA so getting a water-tight seal around the apperture at the base of the processor
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Denture cleaning tablets left to soak in a water full slot work as well.
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I used to use Steradent denture cleaner until I read that its active ingredient is sulfamic acid which is used in a number of products used to descale appliances, clean ceramic tiles of scale etc. It might be available in big hardware stores.
(My cleaning is only for standard black and white chemistry: for colour chemicals I would guess that a different approach would be necessary). |
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You could try Coca Cola. That has enough acid in it to clean most things I am told...
I have just used diluted household bleach in the past. I'm going to give mine a clean soon now I have (most of) my darkroom back in commission :-) Cheers, Bob. |
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For a healthy cleaner you could try citrus infused vinegar. Get a jar, peel an orange or lemon into it (just the peel), fill with white vinegar and give it a good shake. Leave for a fortnight, give another shake and strain the contents. Transfer it to a spray bottle and scoot away. Magic stuff that won't kill your lungs or give you some weird lurgy.
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Coca-Cola
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I do believe it does contain a miniscule quantity of phosphoric acid which in a more concentrated quantity may j-u-s-t do something...... Like give you the trots, but it won't clean a NOVA Tank! |
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