![]() ![]() The question is, to buy, or to build? Certainly, if you have deep pockets, you can buy a commercial stainless steel sink. Once you become a serious darkroom worker you will eventually want a real darkroom sink with running water. JB Posted by JB Harlin in Darkroom, How-To, Photography Note, that the Vinyl does stain when exposed to some chemicals, like Amidol and Pyro, but it has remained flexible and I would not hesitate to recommend it to replace those old, warped wooden Duck Boards.įor more information about Dri-Dek® click HERE. Water easily runs through and under the lattice work, it protects the sink floor, and it provides a soft, yet firm surface on which to work. ![]() We installed Dri-Dek® in our sink two years ago and it has been an excellent investment. This is a soft, flexible Vinyl that is perfect for the floor of a darkroom sink. It comes in 12” interlocking squares or rolls. Then I found something even better.ĭri-Dek® is sold as an anti-fatigue flooring for use in commercial work areas such as industrial manufacturing or commercial kitchens. I have constructed and used the usual wooden Duck Boards for years. I have heard of people using plastic lighting grids or plastic rods in the sink, but I have never tired them. These work well, they protect the sink, and allow water to drain, but wood is hard to waterproof and keep from warping. It has been a common practice to construct wooden Duck Boards for the bottom of the darkroom sink. Yet more indicators that inflation is clear and present in today’s economy, and no longer something theoretical to consider for some other day.If you build you own darkroom sink or use a commercially available unit, you need something to protect the floor of the sink from scratches and abrasions. Subtracting petroleum prices for Imports, that figure remains higher than expected at +0.5%. Building Permits, a forward indicator on future Housing Starts, reached 1.396 million, up 7.4% - higher than the 0.8% expected and from the previous month’s (slightly revised lower) seasonally adjusted annualized units.Īlso, Import/Export Prices came in hotter than expected as well: 1.0% on Imports (+0.6% was expected) and 3.4% on Exports. (There’s a reason gasoline prices are stripped from the “core” read, however: they are historically more volatile, as are food prices.)įor today’s contribution to the macro picture, Housing Starts for January ramped up 9.7% from a -6.9% read in December, and more than twice as hot as the +4.2% we had been expecting. Retail Sales fell in their latest report, though prices for things like gasoline spiked. ![]() This week, we saw both the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI) reads come in hotter than expected, indicating inflation has already begun to seep into the economy. If anything, the initial fears of heavy inflation hitting the market following the January non-farm payroll report two weeks ago have been nothing if not somewhat justified. So what’s changed in that amount of time? Have there been Q4 earnings reports or economic data that have helped investors change course directly? No - not even close. For the S&P 500, we may be seeing the strongest single week of trading since 2011. Boy oh boy - literally one week from one of the most disastrous weeks of stock market trading, including two quadruple-point drops in the Dow, one of which was the index’s biggest point-drop in history, we now sit atop a week that may be the best performer for the Dow since November 2016. ![]()
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