Just read "This is Going to Hurt" by Adam Kay, about his O&G Reg experiences in the NHS - frightening, and brings back a lot of memories from my residency. Just reinforces my opinion of the NHS.
Low roof 400S. Old cars are all money and time down the drain. But that's not the point, is it? If you thought about your hobby that way, you'd just be bitter and miserable. Then that's not a hobby.
It certainly didn't look like that when Dad had it. He bought it from Jeff Dutton's grandmother in around 1957 and it was very scruffy, it was all he could afford when he was a registrar at Footscray hospital, it was 125 pounds.
My middle and high school holiday jobs were processing X-ray films. Up at 5am, train to the practice, warm the processor, run a test film through and find out the fixer bath had a stripped gear on the rollers and you'd have the thing in pieces on the floor trying to get it going for a 7am start. Occasionally the lamp would blow on the "darkroom occupied" sign and some clown would open the door without knocking and the film hopper would be open. Mostly, the equipment was very reliable, but it was hideously expensive. I recall a 24" feed Agfa-Gavaert processor in the 1980s was something like $20,000. They were fun times back then and I enjoyed it immensely, none more so when I discovered silver recovery, and started a small business recovering it. My automotive brochure collection is stored in Agfa Curix boxes. Happy days.
Great story Carl, so where did you recover the silver from ? Looked it up, found this chap on YouTube having a go
Silver halide is a by product of wet film processing and the waste in the old days just went into sewerage. Luckily, silver is quite heavy! So you connected a fish tank like apparatus to the waste water with a filter and all the silver settled to the bottom of the tank. You'd clean it it out and have the sludge turned into bullion!
What an industrious youth you were and it sounds a lot safer than old mates method in the above video (but it’s fun to watch in a scary kind of way
Well, had to support my hobbies somehow! The video is lightly different in that the films the silver is being recovered from are already processed, so you need to strip the silver from the substrate chemically first. It's much easier to remove the excess silver during processing because the silver is already in suspension in the waste water. It was a dark day indeed when wet film was no longer used in medical imaging.
Agree I have never been concerned about car values I buy and sell ..its a hoby, my property investments and financial smart makes the lifestyle I enjoy..
Please don't tell me it's the impossibly gorgeous metallic green (Verde Chiaro) Modern Motor car? (Well I know it isn't as that car is (was?) in Adelaide after being restored but what colour is your LP 400S?)
In jewellery factories they put 100% wool carpet on the floor which is never vacuumed; end of the year, the carpet is burned and all the gold blobs scooped up.
