What is this film processing tool?

February 25, 2009 9:43 PM

IdentifyThisRandomObjectFilter: What is this film processing tool?

I bought an old enlarger at a garage sale, and the former owner gave me a ton of stuff with it, including this, which has me at a loss.

Photo 1

Photo 2 (side view)

I did a lot of film photography and processing in high school and college which wasn't that long ago, but we never used one of these, whatever it is. Google was no help (I tried!)

Cheers!

posted by patr1ck to Grab Bag (3 answers total)

Best answer: It sits in your rinse tray and siphons the (dirty) water out. There are also paired water nozzles that put new water into your tray. The part with the 36 in the circle goes inside the tray pointed down, so the opening is facing up.
posted by niles at 9:47 PM on February 25, 2009

Best answer: Further investigating dug up the Kodak Automatic Tray Siphon(PDF).
posted by niles at 10:02 PM on February 25, 2009

Response by poster: Wow, old technology like this always blows my mind. Thanks niles!
posted by patr1ck at 10:12 PM on February 25, 2009