Re: [Leica] Darkroom help

["Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com>]

I have one of those exact squeegees, too.  How do you ensure that it never
scratches your negatives?  I've not had any problems overall, but I saw a
suspicion line on some recent negatives that I thought might be a scratch--but
it was a white line, not a dark line (meaning a dark streak on the negative, not
a scratch through the emulsion), so I can't figure out if it was the squeegee or
not.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: <shino@ubspainewebber.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 13:50
Subject: Re: [Leica] Darkroom help


> ditto on the jobo squeegee.  it's worked very well for me over the last
> 15 years for both 35mm and 120.  it's got multiple rubber blades, like
> those absurd windsheild wipers you see in those sharper-image wannabe
> catalogues.  but for the jobo it works pretty well.
>
> -rei
>
> > From: S Dimitrov <sld@earthlink.net>
> >
> > I use a Jobo rubber squeegee. The one that's all red, and supposedly the
> > rubber is replaceable. Nary a problem. Although now that I've told, I'm
> > sure the whole zoo is going to find itself on my negs. I do use a double
> > filter system, that more than anything else keeps the negs clean. My
> > prints are for the most part spot-tone free. The only real problem I
> > ever had was in Santa Monica. That S---hole city used to mix brackish
> > well water with Colorado River water. I don't know if they still do. As
> > it is, I no longer live there or care to go back, at least in this lifetime.
> >
> > Slobodan Dimitrov