[LargeFormat] Ilex Shutter Servicing

[Les Newcomer]

the only state in the US that your left hand can serve as a map, Michigan,
which is Ojibway for "mitten" ;-).  Feel that second knuckle on your thumb?
the one closest to your palm?  That where I live. The french called it
"Detwah" or "the straight"  now we call it DEEE troiT. That first thumb
knuckle is Port Huron and you can get into Canada from either point, but
Winsor is known in the bars around here as the only Candian city south of
the contiguous United States.

At the very top is the Mackinac (pronounced "mack in aw" one of those
french/indian muddles) bridge.  I could go on but you get the idea.

Looks like about 900-1000 prints this weekend. I've been doint this all
summer long, about 9000 prints so far. I've managed to get the prints
numbers so I get paid, but I still have every one of those negs 3 prints
each so its' "only" 300 negs) to number.  This is going to be one of those
jobs right up there with death and taxes.

Les

> From: Clive Warren <cocam@cableinet.co.uk>
> Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net
> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 02:45:13 +0000
> To: largeformat@f32.net
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Ilex Shutter Servicing
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> At 5:57 pm -0800 25/1/02, Les Newcomer wrote:
>> I've got a big batch of prints to number this weekend, finally got heat =
into
>> the darkroom after 7 years, and have been working on getting water and s=
ewer
>> or at least a drain in there too. Imagine a darkroom with a real "wet" s=
ide!
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>> Within a week or two I should have my 8x10 B&W nitro sinkline up and
>> running.
>> Why does that sound like a hot rod out of the 60s??--- Next year I'll pu=
t in
>> double pumpers, maybe a blower and straight pipes too!!!  By the time I =
get
>> done I'll be able to take my contrast index from O to 10 in less that 6
>> minutes!!!   :)
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>> Alas the weather makes me I feel like I've moved to Georgia (the US stat=
e,
>> not the Soviet state) today is the only day in the week where the high w=
ill
>> be less than 40=B0F.  And I can remember when we never got above 32 the en=
tire
>> month of January. This new generation of New Year's babies have gone all
>> soft!
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>> Les
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>> Oh Yes Ilex servicing.  I'm not sure that it's still true, but as of a f=
ew
>> years ago Ilex was still repairing their own.
> snip
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> Hello Les,
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> Glad there's someone doing some darkroom work out there! At least
> you've got as far as numbering prints - I have put the negs in a
> rather daunting pile to print but my darkroom is still cluttered with
> various bits of furniture. Have made enough room to get around the
> enlargers and am lucky in that there is a sink all plumbed in with
> running water etc.
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> Tonight was going to be the night for inhaling the sweet smells
> (ah...) of chemicals (cough!) but the distraction of the shutter put
> paid to that. Ended up doing some f32 stuff instead.
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> Life has been very busy here - picked up a new (to me) enlarger last
> week and it hasn't yet made it from the hall to the darkroom - the
> furniture problem again. Guess it'll have to be tomorrow for the big
> tidy up and furniture moving.
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> As for that shutter, it would be amazing if Ilex were still around
> and servicing their old shutters. maybe they haven't made it onto the
> web yet. More likely that they are making CCD lenses and most people
> working there have no idea about their great tradition in large
> format lenses.
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> As for the temperature - which state are you in anyway? You wouldn't
> want what we have outside right now in the UK!
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> Cheers,
> Clive
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