Mercury Pot
This is the first of many hurdles on the road to becoming a daguerreian. I hired Rusty Oliver to create mercury pot for me. It is finished and I just need to pick it up. I can’t wait to see it and I will post some pictures of it as soon as I get it.
Mike's mercury pot
The next step is to get a temperature controller for the heating element to keep the mercury at a constant 167 degrees. After that then I will tackle the next hurdles. The iodine and the bromine fuming boxes.
things I will need:
1. temperature controller for merc pot
2. ground flat the top of two pyrex dishes to make a good seal in the fuming boxes
3. make 2 fuming boxes
4. acquire some iodine
5. acquire some bromine
6. make fume hood and vent to outside
7. test fume hood, fuming boxes and mercury pot.
8. get mercury spill kit and get some ammonia
9. make charging jar and charge silica with bromine
10. get abrasives, random orbital sander, buy cotton velvet, and nu-shine.
11. Make two buffing paddles.
12. buy plates, polish plates, and do iodine, bromine, and mercury times tests
13. shoot first official dagguerreotype before the end July or August
lot of stuff to do but well worth it.