Now you see me, now you don't!

[marke]

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)

 

[Rogrund]

A revolving darkroom door?

 

[thomasw_]

A revolving darkroom door?

Yep, that what I think it is, too.

 

[axiom]

you are replacing your toilet door with this??

 

[xayraa33]

you are building a time machine to go back and buy some panatomic x film along with that 25 dollar Nicca camera.

 

[Ducky]

A sensory deprivation chamber?
Heh, a light trap! Cool. 😎

A couple hours in a dark room always felt like some kind of deprivation.

 

[marke]

you are replacing your toilet door with this??

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]

Looks like a Tardis that got left in Newark overnight.

 

[Todd.Hanz]

cool...a coffin.

Todd

 

[marke]

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]

That's one big ass development tank, for some old large format film 🙂!

 

[amateriat]

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!

I hope the "sleeping" part she implied isn't permanent, if you get my drift...😱

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.

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]

You have a brilliant future as a visually-impaired Bingo caller. Gotta have big ball for that.

 

[gb hill]

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.

 

[BTMarcais]

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