Availability of ABS pipe

[Jac@stafford.net]

Our massive farm supply store has everything one would need. Farm supply, that's the ticket.

[Tin Can]

https://www.menards.com/main/plumbin...ngs/c-8562.htm

https://www.menards.com/main/plumbin...4426396367.htm

[William Whitaker]

Thanks Randy. I'll have to move to the midwest. They won't ship to me!

[Tin Can]

A long time ago I lived up river from Philadelphia.

I prefer the Midwest.

More room here, less regulation.

I did like the horse drawn canals I found buried in the woods. https://explorepahistory.com/hmarker...rkerId=1-A-1D5

Thanks Randy. I'll have to move to the midwest. They won't ship to me!

[John Kasaian]

Big Box stores are certainly convenient but going to a real supply house is nearly always more economical and far more interesting.
Sales clerk: "What are you going to be using 4" PVC for?"
You: "To develop 12x20 sheet film, like old time cameras with bellows use."
Sales clerk(calling back over his shoulder): "Hey Gonzo! We've got a guy who shoots an old time camera with bellows!"
From there on you never know where the conversation will go.
It can be a heck of a lot of fun!

[Drew Wiley]

The first thing you learned is to NEVER ask what PVC pipe is going to be used for, especially if the buyers came from the Mendocino area.

[William Whitaker]

Lol!!

[William Whitaker]

I never allude to photography. Everybody has their idea of what that means, usually wrong.

Back in my early days my co-workers all assumed that an enlarger was to enlarge one thing in particular (hint: it wasn't a negative)

Years later a Kodak rep (in a store) was trying to sell me the latest, greatest developer. I commented that I really wasn't interested and that I was using a pyro-based developer.
His comment: "Oh, you're one of those..."
I walked out of the store, sworn against big Yellow forever more.
Unfair to Kodak, perhaps. But then, they were paying this jerk too much money (I'm sure) to hawk their wares.
Since then I just prefer to keep it to myself.

[Bob Salomon]

I never allude to photography. Everybody has their idea of what that means, usually wrong.

Back in my early days my co-workers all assumed that an enlarger was to enlarge one thing in particular (hint: it wasn't a negative)

Years later a Kodak rep (in a store) was trying to sell me the latest, greatest developer. I commented that I really wasn't interested and that I was using a pyro-based developer.
His comment: "Oh, you're one of those..."
I walked out of the store, sworn against big Yellow forever more.
Unfair to Kodak, perhaps. But then, they were paying this jerk too much money (I'm sure) to hawk their wares.
Since then I just prefer to keep it to myself.

Back in the AF we didn’t have enlargers in any of our dark rooms. We had all kinds of projection printers though.

We had decided to put some of the products that we sold on GSA contract. One of the products was Kaiser and their copy stands. However the GSA examiner could not find copy stand in any of their photo categories. So I received a phone call one day from the examiner telling me that since it holds a camera they had decided to include it under the listing for tripods! Took several months to get them to add a category for copy stands!

[mpirie]

Back in my early days my co-workers all assumed that an enlarger was to enlarge one thing in particular (hint: it wasn't a negative)

lol, you mean it isn't? No wonder i couldn't find the slot for my negatives.

I must have the wrong type of enlarger

Mike