B1R15-129 VW Beetle #CLM174 scrub bashing looking for Walpet Cave
Image by spelio
evening setting..
With Rick in front seat and Mad Dog in the back…
"We followed old track to the cave. Came across it at 12:40, got ready to go down. Had lunch in the entrance at 1,
went down at 1:30, crawled through many passages of chundrous rock pile for hrs.
Climbed round edge of large collapse, in our shorts! Ate jelly beans & lstened to Rick complain. Found small stream passage, skeleton & drafts. Went out 6 photo climbed out ate.
Drove back across scrub to road. Photo. bumps, smoky exhaust. Back to cam at Mullumullang, had large tea of steak!! tomatoes, onion, pudding and pears..
Cup of tea and off to bed at 10:30. Windy with beautiful moon & clouds, cool. "
From my Trip notes, ed 09/04/24
Early #roundaustraliawithspelio
I tried some Kirkland flushable baby wipes of organic natural solution!
Most if not all the mould was on the soft emulsion side, so you have to wipe softly and quickly before the emulsion softens. If you then wipe with a lint-free cloth to remove all the wet wipe fibres stuck in the emulsion you can feel the cloth drag on the soft emulsion.
Let the slide dry and harden for a few minutes then hold the slide at a flat angle to a bright light and you can see the lint stuck to the emulsion and the non-emulsion side. The emulsion side of a Kodachrome slide is the side with the Kodak label.
You can then use the lint-free cloth to wipe or flip the fluff and fibres off.
You can see the fibres change direction as you wipe. This can be done firmly and several times on the viewing side but be gentle on the other side, the emulsion side.
Before scanning, I use a soft makeup brush to remove any remaining dust and fibres, especially from an old Kodak cardboard mount.
See more and counter arguments and advice here…
from www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiei8gBZePI
Those of us who have been travelling a lot before the time of digital cameras may have a huge collection of mouldy slides 10-20 years old. Some websites advise using alcohol to wipe off the mould. I have a better way. The wetting agent in these wipes provides just the right amount of lubrication to clean off the mould in slides without scratching the film too much.
Chan Joon Yee
This is terrible advice for one reason. People will go out and buy alcohol. It will contain water. They’ll forget about the 99.9 pure grade and just remember some video on the internet said to use alcohol and buy the cheaper 91% or 71% and not even notice even if they intended on buying the right stuff. Or even having the 99% pure they’ll grab the wrong bottle on the shelf and use that by mistake. Believe me. I worked supporting a technical product and you wouldn’t believe the stupid careless things people did. If all they sold was 99.9% pure alcohol then sure. Most places don’t even stock 99.9% stuff. People will pick up whatever is available and call it a day. I absolutely, positively, guarantee this. No. Bad. Buy regular film cleaner. It isn’t that expensive. Follow the directions. People cleaning 70 or 80 year old film likely know what they are doing or will research the film and use the right stuff as recommended by the manufacturer. Seasoned photographers will not watch this video because they already know how to clean film. This video will only attract new people who might not even have ever used film who want to scan something but not really know what they are doing. There are certain types of film that will be ruined using any type of cleaner. They will not know this. (Polachrome is one)
