RSSKitchen utensils make professional photo enlarger
Photo enlarger made from kitchen gear, Modern Mechanix 1936 Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Feb 6, 2008 08:00 AM
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| Posted by: John Honniball on February 6, 2008 at 11:22 AM |
My father built an enlarger like this, probably in the 1940s. He used the floats from ball-cocks (i.e. the float valves used in toilet cisterns), which in those days were beautifully-made brass spheres. He also used iron pipes for the column, and all sorts of brass parts for the rest of it. He fixed it all together with solder and then built it into a wooden sideboard along with developing trays, a clock, tray heaters (carbon-filament light bulb) and a safelight. I wish I had a photo of it!
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