I got a stainless darkroom sink for free, and it hasn't stained or corroded from chemicals, and I like it.
If you want to make a sink to fit a particular space, nothing wrong with building on with plywood and fiberglass
I got a stainless darkroom sink for free, and it hasn't stained or corroded from chemicals, and I like it.
If you want to make a sink to fit a particular space, nothing wrong with building on with plywood and fiberglass
Marine plywood? Thickness? Brass screws? Do you seal and glue, use quarter rounds or just glue and screw. Pool paint is a good tip. Just fiberglass all seams or the whole bottom? Bud at the formulary built some beauties, coated , coated with the truck bed liner process.
Dave, in regards to mine specifically, more information is a click of the pix away. Ain't the interwebs magical...
My wife & I had a bathroom finished with my very first darkroom. The company that made our counter tops also incorporated, in the process, a sink large enough to hold my trays.
Perhaps you could do the same.
Hope this helps you!
Thanks, saw the pics, missed the link, nice info. Great darkroomOriginally Posted by ROL
No worries with the link. I was being a bit coy with my direction. Even though it is common to link through pix on websites, it is probably fairly rare (though easy) to do so within forums. It may have been the first time I've ever done it. Sometimes, I become self conscious about the frequency of linking to my own (entirely non commercial) site, though in fact the reason I write explanatory articles at all is purely to assist others as best I can without reams of repetitive text within forum posts. I definitely took the more subtle, if not stealth, approach this time around.
i've had stainless and wood and currently have thick plastic .
i'd take wood anyday over the other 2. ... and they are a piece of cake
to build and if needed, repair ...
HCl is definitely a source of problems, but I believe that the iron oxide compounds in pt/pd may also corrode. I avoid HCl anyway...
The pt/pd chems will stain the SS too... so a nice SS sink will become uncleanable in short order if you print much.
A good friend had a DR built not too long ago, and had a plywood frame put in, and then had a local plastics guy come out and place an ABS insert into the sink and welded all the seams and such. That looks great, and should last forever.
I couldn't bear that cost, so I made mine out of marine grade plywood (3/4") and biscuit-jointed the pieces to get it long enough. Several layers of epoxy paint later, and it is great.
I finished it with an arm rail of oak on the front edge with nice large radius corners, so it is reasonably comfortable to lean against.
Lastly, I made the damn thing DEEP--- it can accommodate my super large Cescolite trays, 23x28, easily, with the long dimension front/back, so I can fit 4 of them in there easily. I think I made it 31" clear front to back inside.
---Michael
Dirty rotten scoundrel! Hahaha... Mine has Oak trim!+1.
Here's where I get to show off my 20 footer, again ():
…just try to do that with SS either off-the-shelf, or custom at anywhere near the cost.
---Michael
We've obviously met.
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