Originally Posted by
Drew Wiley
... which you no doubt in turn clean using 60-grit sandpaper. The top of my truck needs that kind of Simonize treatment. Who doesn't clean their carrier glass and negs on this forum? The question is, do you do that wearing a linty cotton shirt, with the cat rubbing up to your hand? - better than a porcupine, I guess. But it might be more pertinent to pose the question exactly HOW do you clean your glass? I'm still looking for the silver bullet. So let me be the first to state my own method, and hopefully solicit
alternate answers.
I take the carrier glass to the sink, scrub it with the most gentle kind of nylon mesh pad I can find using vinegar Windex. Then I gently hose it off (our water here has very little mineral content), and blow all the remaining beads of water off using my micro-filtered air line at low PSI (30 PSI), then set the two sheets in my clean room to dry. When I install the sheets back into whatever carrier, they're carefully examined with reading glasses under an inspection light next to the intake side of a large air purifier. Same for film. And when working with multiple sheets of film needing to be exposed in register, I swab and mop down the entire room in advance. I never do FB black and white printing in the same room during the same general timeframe as critical color work - too much lint risk. I cut my teeth on large static-prone Cibachromes, which are hell to retouch. It proved to be a beneficial bootcamp experience.
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