Comments on: Of ships and shoes and scanners

By: Tony Bridge

Tony Bridge — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:52:59 +0000

Funny… I have the same Hassy dream!..most days…I have yet to wake up!

By: OSG

OSG — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:21:21 +0000

It aint the Ides of March I’m worried about.
It’s the one (if there is one) in October where I surrender my body to the whims of Western medicine.
The blot says that I am going on a journey and I will meet a tall dark stranger. She will give me a Hassy with a 60 meg back and I shall go on to make work the like of which you have never seen before. At the moment of personal triumph, international fame, everlasting glory and untold riches, I shall wake up and it will be business as usual. Well, a guy can dream……..

By: Tony Bridge

Tony Bridge — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:32:43 +0000

Glad to hear of your experiments…
So what does the Blot have to tell you?
Beware the Ides of March!

By: OSG

OSG — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:49:46 +0000

Thanks for that.
It is made up now and I have placed the ink jet print in the tray but nothing seems to happening, hang on the colours seem to running together……oops I think I have just made a Rorschach blot picture.

By: garry

garry — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:59:23 +0000

what scanner?

By: Tony Bridge

Tony Bridge — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:05:47 +0000

OSG:
I knew you were antediluvian, but…
Never let it be said I wouldn’t help..
Try this…
Farmer’s Reducer for Prints

Stock Solution A:
Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250.0 ml
Potassium ferricyanide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.0 g
Potassium bromide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.0 g

Stock Solution B:
Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500.0 ml
Sodium thiosulfate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120.0 g

For use normal use, mix 1/4 ounce (7.5 ml) of solution A with 6 ounces (180 ml) of solution B and add water to make 16 ounces or 500 ml. This solution works quickly, so reduction must be carefully monitored. For a slower reducing action, increase the amount of water or reduce the amount of Solution A.

By: OSG

OSG — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:13:38 +0000

Yeh mate, you can help…what are the proportions of ferri, thio and H2O for Farmer’s?
Memory tells me that it is 1/4/27 but as I am getting on a bit memory aint that hot and I cant find the BJ Almanack for 1952.