Re: [APML] Dry Air Purge Rate for hypered film?

[Robert Reeves <reeves10@swbell.net>]

> I know that Herm Perez, and Jim Ives have been using a dry air purge thru
a Drierite
> drying unit successfully with hypered TP.
>
> I've been using only hypered Royal Gold 200,  and LE400 the last couple
seasons,
> without any purge. I figgered on giving it a try with the dry air purge
before
> lugging along one of my nitrogen tanks. The nitrogen tanks are just a bit
too much
> hassle!
>
> Thanks again--steve.

10-4 on the nitrogen tanks being a hassle.  I could do it when I was
younger, but one day I just got old.  Suddenly the thing seemed to weigh a
ton.

As far as the flow from the aquarium pump through the camera, you can
throttle it down a bit more using the needle valves used to control air flow
into aquariums.  They are cheap and work fine.  To guage the amount of
output  flow just see how long it takes to displace the water in a jar of
known capacity.

Robert Reeves                      reeves10@swbell.net
520 Rittiman Rd.                   www.robertreeves.com
San Antonio, Texas 78209    210-828-9036
USA                                     29.484  98.440  200 meters


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