marke
Well-known
This morning a friend of mine delivered this gift, brand new and still in the box. It was destined for a hospital's radiology department at one time, but they never needed it. It's been sitting in a warehouse, looking for a home. I got it for nothing.
Can you guess what it is? (a hint is in the title)
Can you guess what it is? (a hint is in the title)
Rogrund
Antti Sivén
A revolving darkroom door?
thomasw_
Well-known
Yep, that what I think it is, too.
axiom
Non-Registered User
you are replacing your toilet door with this??
xayraa33
rangefinder user and fancier
you are building a time machine to go back and buy some panatomic x film along with that 25 dollar Nicca camera.
Ducky
Well-known
A sensory deprivation chamber?
Heh, a light trap! Cool.
A couple hours in a dark room always felt like some kind of deprivation.
marke
Well-known
LOL! No, I'm not that "regular".
Yes, it's a revolving darkroom door. A steel one. Man, I never realized these things were so expensive.
And HEAVY! My wife is going to be on my case until I get this thing down in the basement. And if it doesn't happen before winter so she can get her car in the garage, I might be sleeping it it!
bmattock
Veteran
Looks like a Tardis that got left in Newark overnight.
T
Todd.Hanz
Guest
cool...a coffin.
Todd
Todd
marke
Well-known
Once I got it out of the crate this afternoon, I tried to upright it myself. No way! Then I saw some writing on the side of the carton: Lined with 1/16" lead. Ugh! I'm going to see if I can remove this lining, as I don't see myself going into radiology anytime soon, not even as a side job.
arseniii
Well-known
That's one big ass development tank, for some old large format film !
!
amateriat
We're all light!
I hope the "sleeping" part she implied isn't permanent, if you get my drift...Yes, it's a revolving darkroom door. A steel one. Man, I never realized these things were so expensive.
Well, you can put it to your wife this way: "Honey, the darkroom could double as a fallout shelter...yeah, the Cold War is supposed to be over, but we still have all these nukes hanging around..."
Good luck getting that set up. Be careful handling that lead, though.
- Barrett
Trius
Waiting on Maitani
You have a brilliant future as a visually-impaired Bingo caller. Gotta have big ball for that.
gb hill
Veteran
I need that lead to seal my truck. Fort Bragg has a huge xray device for scanning large trucks. I ruined two rolls of film going through that darn thing. The guards say it will penetrate 14 inches of steel.
Fort Bragg has a huge xray device for scanning large trucks. I ruined two rolls of film going through that darn thing. The guards say it will penetrate 14 inches of steel.BTMarcais
Well-known
We have a (plastic) door like that at the darkroom where I work. It took a little getting used to, but it doesn't take up too much space once it's set up.
And with your lead-lined steel door.... I think you're only going to want to set that up once!!!
-Brian
And with your lead-lined steel door.... I think you're only going to want to set that up once!!!
-Brian