I watched this video/interview the other day. It gives a general overview of the wet plate process. You may find it useful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM2aKze_DAY
With gelatin dry plates, and I believe it goes for collodion dry plates also, the plate is allowed to dry prior to being placed in the plate holder. They are different animals though. If you are interested in gelatin dry plates I think we can guide you toward several sources of info on the subject. One being www.thelightfarm.com and another would be http://www.alternativephotography.co...-plate-process
Under Cameras & Photo on Ebay there are folks selling Wet Plates processing outfits. This may be of interest to some.
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