Hi everyone,
I finally got around to building a "slosher" per John Sexton's design. I have tried Phil Bard's processing panel and hangers, and thought I would give the slosher a try.
The slosher is a processing panel that is made of plexiglass. It has a number of vertical plexiglass pieces that hold sheets of film in place. John Sexton devised it to process film when using dilute developer for its compensation effect. I plan to use it with my regular two bath developer.
In my first go round, the "expert" at the store recommended aquarium glue to hold it together. That was a miserable failure. I pulled it apart after a week and cleaned off all of the glue.
This time around I used Weld-On 3 acrylic solvent. It set up very quickly and should cure in about 48 hours, but the instructions say that it continues to solidify for weeks.
Now that I have glued the thing together for the second time, my questions for those of you who might have built one of these things: What glue did you use? If you used acrylic solvent, how long did you wait to use it to develop film? When you use it, do you lift it out of the solutions by the vertical dividers? I am wondering if the bond is strong enough. I don't want the thing to come apart in the middle of a developing session!
Thanks in advance.
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