24 Jun
2005
24 Jun
'05
7:31 p.m.
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Tom Jennings wrote:
The point of nylon gloves is that they do not generate
lint.
Cotton generates a lot of lint and are no good for disk-drive
repairs.
Lint-free is the key characteristic.
We're talking about gloves made form cotton cloth, NOT cotton swabs.
The requirements for photographic use was to be soft enough to not scratch
the emulsion, with as little lint as possible.
Soft nylon gloves were not readily available then, and "lint-free" cotton
gloves (really only LOW-lint) were the lowest lint of anything soft enough
that was readily available at the time (30 years ago)