Choice for Darkroom Towels

[Wilbur Wong]

Back when I had a nice car, I bought a package of cloth diapers every year for detailing. I suppose I could do the same for my dark room but I generally recycle old worn out t-shirts and an occasional old towel for the task.

I have no complaints and the price is right.

Unfortunately now I can't get the thought of Kirk Gittings in a nun's habit out of my head and will no doubt have to spend several months in therapy as the result.

Perhaps he can get Freestyle to stock them? I'll look for them in the next catalog!

My favorite darkroom towel are single thickness diapers. Unfortunately, they seem to have basically disappeared. I always consider them to very absorbent and mostly lint free after a few washings. I would avoid the multilayer ones. (I suppose pampers are pretty absorbent. . . . )

[Kirk Gittings]

Unfortunately now I can't get the thought of Kirk Gittings in a nun's habit out of my head and will no doubt have to spend several months in therapy as the result.

Perhaps he can get Freestyle to stock them? I'll look for them in the next catalog!

I'm glad you guys can appreciate my occasional lapses.

[Merg Ross]

Kirk, what lapse? I thought you were serious!

[Barry Trabitz]

Hey Kirk,
Is that the winter black or the summer white? Do they come with the 18 inch steel edge ruler or is that extra?
Barry.

[Alan Rabe]

Hey Kirk, Is this what you were thinking about.
http://www.amiclubwear.com/83127nuns.html

[aduncanson]

It simply amazes me how many people cannot figure these things out for themselves. How do you ever get to work on your own?

It was a busy weekend and I just got back to see the stridency I have wrought. I have to say that, given my self-effacing comments in my original post I really did not expect this. Since Ms Mathews asked, I will admit that getting to work is particularly simple for me as I telecommute. So perhaps I am a moron, but if so my family and co-workers have done a great job of shielding me from that fact. Generally I think that I am regarded as no more than a bit eccentric - as likely would be any participant in these forums.

By way of explanation I would say I am just putting finishing touches on a new B&W darkroom after 30 years of using demoralizing, highly compromised facilities. I now have the space, the time and the budget to do this without accepting choices that I see as poor compromises, and yes, I am obsessing a bit. I want the room to be a joy to use and to function very, very well. I have implemented some original approaches to the problems of light seals, timers and ventilation. I am still working on others, for example to provide an alignment capability for an enlarger that sorely needs it; and I have relied on the wisdom of these forums to find the best approaches to several other questions. As I indicated, I had given the question of towels a bit of thought, but I was curious to see what the collected conventional and unconventional wisdom of this forum would have to say.

To the many who contributed clever solutions, handy tips and good-hearted humor - I thank you very much. To any whom I offended with my insignificant question, I apologize to the full extent of my strictly circumscribed sincerity.

- Alan

[Alan Rabe]

Alan, no need to apolgize. Just read some of Ms Mathews other posts and you'll understand she's just in to belittling others, probably makes her feal superior.

[Caroline Matthews]

Alan, no need to apolgize. Just read some of Ms Mathews other posts and you'll understand she's just in to belittling others, probably makes her feal superior.

Another pet peeve is those who never learned to speal, Alan.

[Alan Rabe]

[Harold_4074]

Another pet peeve is those who never learned to speal, Alan.

Or, in this case, perhaps that should be "spiel".

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)