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Thursday, October 23, 2025

Working On Wet Plate Darkroom Trailer

Cleaning the wet plate trailer. It is super dirty. Also need to replace the propane bottle stand which was damaged last winter when my 2-30lb bottles were stolen. Wll charge batteries and check the electrics as well.
The hope is to do cold weather and winter ambrotypes for the AMBROTOS KANATA project soon. I am retired, time to go into high gear on the project, before I am too old and feeble to do the work needed.
First step, get the trailer up and running!!
Note* The bill for the theft of bottles is $360-380 CAD. 2 bottles, stand plus propane. I also need to buy heavier chains and good locks, one for each bottle, to prevent another theft.

Today's clean up work