please help with Nova print washer

I bought a used 11x14 Nova single slot archival print washer (cheap)
off of Ebay. Having never used a vertical print washer before, I'm at
a loss as to how to use it. It has a rubber hose (inlet) at the
bottom of one end, and a hole at the opposite bottom end. It also has
a large exit (?) tube at the top, on the inlet side. When I turn the
water on, most of the water goes right through and out the other hole
without it going up very high. Should there be some sort of cork or
stopper there? I assume that the water flow would come in the bottom
inlet, rise up, and finally pour out the exit tube at the top. This
doesn't happen now.
Any help would be appreciated!
-Chase M.

 

Yes, most "archival" print washers work that way. I.e., water goes in
one end (either the bottom or the top) and goes out the other end
(either the top or the bottom, respectively). The hole at the bottom
opposite your inlet pipe is for draining the thing, and should be
plugged in normal use.

(I have a Zone VI washer that works the other way: for some unknown
reason, Fred Picker thought that dissolved argentothiosulphate ions were
heavier than water and should be drained from the bottom, so he put most
of the water in at the top and by an elaborate arrangement, got the unit
to drain from the bottom. That is all nonsense of course, but the unit
works well anyway. Fred probably should have read Einstein's early paper
on Brownian Movement, but that's another story.)

 

Plug the second bottom hole. The water will exit on the big hole on the top.

 

Thanks JD & hizzo. That does the trick!
-Chase