Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Regarding an inexpensive darkroom sink - has a custom fabricated PVC sink been mentioned ? I'm about 18 months away from a real darkroom, but I got thinking about portable darkrooms and I found this baby on the net: www.darkrooms.net ...but at 13K, it's a bit out of the budget. So I drafted up my own plans for a portable darkroom similar to the Zig, but with a few modifications. One being the use of PVC over stainless for the sink. I contacted a shop (via the Yellow Pages under "plastics") and got a quote for a 30 x 18 x 60 PVC sink for under 150 CDN - including a drain. Schedual 80 PVC is really heavy stuff - thick enough that it can be welded with hot air and PVC filler rods. The advantage of welded PVC is that you don't have to worry about the normal PVC glue being dissolved over time by photo-chemicals (and your sink falling apart). Now I'm hunting for a enlarger. just a thought William