Lets See Your Darkroom

[Thom Bennett]

Shared darkroom. We can do up to 20x24 prints in both silver and alt processes.

[Renato Tonelli]

Shared darkroom. We can do up to 20x24 prints in both silver and alt processes.

Well organized; I always appreciate that.

[MrFujicaman]

I thought I'd show the latest work in my darkroom. I was never quite happy with the first water chiller I made as it took several big bags of ice to cover the copper coil. I found this 5 gallon water cooler at a flea market and went to work on it. It should take much less ice to chill the water down with this setup.

[Tin Can]

COOL!

Looks like 25' Wort Chiller Coil Stainless Steel Home Brewing Beer Cooling Immersion

I post the eBay only as reference, I have no connection with seller

but I almost bought one a year ago as my water heats up every summer

I thought I'd show the latest work in my darkroom. I was never quite happy with the first water chiller I made as it took several big bags of ice to cover the copper coil. I found this 5 gallon water cooler at a flea market and went to work on it. It should take much less ice to chill the water down with this setup.

[scheinfluger_77]

Pretty cool setup.

[MrFujicaman]

COOL!

Looks like 25' Wort Chiller Coil Stainless Steel Home Brewing Beer Cooling Immersion

I post the eBay only as reference, I have no connection with seller

but I almost bought one a year ago as my water heats up every summer

Randy, this and the countertop ice maker my kid sister talked me into buying means I have cold water in the summer for film washing. Between the ice maker and the water chiller, I have maybe $140 in this project-and $90 of that is the ice maker. There is no way I could afford a commercial water chiller, plus I have no room for it in my darkroom.

[Tin Can]

I added my 2 cents for others that may follow

The item I linked to is simply a coil like yours, except new, it would use ice or cold water. $40 + $20 shipping

I had planned on using a Dorm fridge with a bucket of water with the coil inside and letting the fridge chill the bucket water, and let my too warm cold water go down in temp a bit.

I have the fridge and a bucket, so it would be very similar to your good idea.

not trying to sell expensive ideas...

Randy, this and the countertop ice maker my kid sister talked me into buying means I have cold water in the summer for film washing. Between the ice maker and the water chiller, I have maybe $140 in this project-and $90 of that is the ice maker. There is no way I could afford a commercial water chiller, plus I have no room for it in my darkroom.

[Drew Wiley]

If the ambient air temp is too warm, all you need is a small "blue ice" pak in the water jacket, or else a slow drip line of cold tap water, slow enough that the heater can keep up with it.

[Duolab123]

I thought I'd show the latest work in my darkroom. I was never quite happy with the first water chiller I made as it took several big bags of ice to cover the copper coil. I found this 5 gallon water cooler at a flea market and went to work on it. It should take much less ice to chill the water down with this setup.

That's a nice setup. You can add "just enough" ice to meet your requirements. With the coil at the bottom and the ice floating in whatever water level you choose, gravity convection. Very nice.

Sounding very Ghostbusters "The molar enthalpy of fusion for ice at 0 °C has an accepted value of +6.01 kJ/mol." Hell Yeah!

[MrFujicaman]

I added my 2 cents for others that may follow

The item I linked to is simply a coil like yours, except new, it would use ice or cold water. $40 + $20 shipping

I had planned on using a Dorm fridge with a bucket of water with the coil inside and letting the fridge chill the bucket water, and let my too warm cold water go down in temp a bit.

I have the fridge and a bucket, so it would be very similar to your good idea.

not trying to sell expensive ideas...

I thought of that at first-even bought a dorm fridge. Then I found out the copper coil wouldn't fit in the fridge. Gave the fridge to the daughter of a friend who was headed off to college. Live and learn!