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You might get lucky with them but I would not trust them. You can do the Kodak safelight test to see if they are safe pretty easily. Do not do the coin test, it doesn't really work because it only tests paper pre-exposure. Basically cut a mask for a sheet of your paper and expose a strip around 1 inch wide (you want the paper to develop to a light grey). Move the paper to the brightest part of your darkroom and expose it to your safelight in stages of 1 minute, 2 minutes then 4 minutes. Then mask off the other side of the test strip and expose that to the same time in your enlarger. This'll show you how your safelight performs pre and post exposure and how much working time you have under your safelight until it is unsafe.  
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a dingus posted:I just bought what seems like almost an entire dark room off Craigslist for $50. The only thing I'm missing is chemicals. It's been almost 20 years since I've used an enlarger or made prints. Nice! The 6x9 enlargers seem fairly common here, 4x5 is a bit harder to come by. I’ve found that the random red LED strips that are 100% fine for wet plate do fog paper, I’d err on the side of a proper safelight. I wouldn’t worry about the lens too much. As far as a darkroom, the Ilford tent is p decent and B&H may still be running their special on it.
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Speaking of fogging paper, today I answered the question of whether a random red safelight (a 4x5 contact printer that came with my darkroom setup) was compatible with Kodak OC (amber) - nope!  For fellow apartment dwellers, I can definitely recommend the Ilford Pop-Up Darktent I mentioned in my last post. This is actually my first time using it for its intended purpose (wet printing with an enlarger, I mainly use it for wet plate collodion), it has a reasonably small footprint and isn't too bad to put up. You'll want a 4' folding table for setting things up on.   If you have the room to leave something up permanently, a hydroponic grow tent will give you more space and be cheaper, but the Ilford tent is lot nicer to set up/break down.
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