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

[lbanbury <lbanbury@sonic.net>]

>Age has little to do with it. As a 25 year old kid I had occasion to help
my cousin work with a dewar (sp?) flask of liquid N that was about the
same length but twice the diameter of these N2 bottles. Darned heavy then
too!  IMHO - its a 2 person task to mess with these safely. :-)
Loren Banbury


> In a message dated 5/26/03 6:32:23 PM, reeves10@swbell.net writes:
>
>>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.
>
> Come-On Robert.............!!!!
> You're not old  !!!! You just need to get out there and paint that
> Schmidt  Camera white.
> If you use the 40 cu. foot tanks, they aren't all that heavy.
>
> Kent Kirkley
>
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