Excellent. And I love the use of wood in engineering products!
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Originally Posted by AgX  I wonder how the four-layer coating is done. By four seperate runs or by using another type of coating head than that through? |
If my memory of the Ilford factory tour is correct, that is a cascade coater. It is possible to inject several emulsions at the same time which flow over each other before coating the film with multi-layers. The one in the link looks like it is set up for a single emulsion at the moment though.
The text does say that this is a prototype head so perhaps there are plans to make a multi-layer coating head.
This looks similar in size to the pilot machine Ilford use to test batches of emulsion before running it on their full size machine - which is huge!
Steve.