Looking for a scanner mounting fluid

[Mateo_2867]

Free Tuesday:

If any of you Denver area guys are interested, I have 3 or 4 large bottles each of Kami drum cleaner, mounting fluid, and a whole bunch of Kami newton spray. Yours if you come get it. They have a hazard label so I don't want to deal with shipping it, but maybe someone in denver could send some off to others that may need it.

mateo

[Julio Fernandez]

Hi Stephen: Your approach is sound. Wet mounting will not only deliver a flat image plane but will avoid the pitfalls of dry film enlarging. These pitfalls always existed but no attention was ever paid to them because enlarging through dry negs was par for the course. It was not until flatbed scanner users began noticing the differences with wet mounting that the disadvantages became noticed and upon analysis, understood. Minimizing or eliminating grain and dust and scratches is but the tip of the iceberg. You will gain additional brilliance, colour saturation and contrast as well. Thanks to Walter F. for the reference regarding the fluid. I do sell scanner fluid in smaller containers.
In as much as the advantages to enlarging will be the same as those gained in scanning you may benefit from seeing what those benefits are. A new Yahoo group dedicated to Wet Mounting provides lots of sample images and files from which you can learn about the technique. If you are scanning you can also get one of the new Turnkey kits for your scanner. However for enlarging you will need the fluid and a couple more things. You can drop me a line at scanmax@sympatico.ca and also visit the yahoo group at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCANMAX/

[Roger Krueger]

I get mine from

http://www.baypressservices.com

Navigate to "Pre-Press", then to "Scanner Supplies"

[Ed Richards]

Cold light head? If it is condenser you may cook the stuff out. When I taught chem lab many years ago, I was scared sh**less about students starting fires with naphtha and the like and we were working in the light with a fire shower nearby. In the good old days we would lose about one operating room a year from ether explosions - if it was located in the right place in the hospital, you had to close the whole building. Naphtha, hot lights, and a small darkroom sounds pretty exciting. Wonder if it voids your home owner's insurance - it probably has an exclusion for industrial solvent explosions.

[tim atherton]

"Naphtha, hot lights, and a small darkroom sounds pretty exciting. Wonder if it voids your home owner's insurance - it probably has an exclusion for industrial solvent explosions"

Yeah, but you could win a Darwin Award