Hi Brian -- I do run my bathroom's exhaust fan while drying the film. Just last night I developed 3 more rolls -- this time I held the film horizontally and wiped excess off the bottom edge as water ran down there. Still, I ended up with numerous drying marks -- the water just does not sheet properly, it beads up. I even tried a concentration of LFN which is 4 times greater than Edwal recommends, with the same result.(posted 8738 days ago)Your suggestion of forced air is a good one, it might help. However, to force all the water off 3 rolls of 120 film (this is one batch for me) would take a lot of air -- so if it does work I suspect it would be quite expensive to buy all that canned air.
I'm pretty much resolved to using a sponge squeegee (I've tried a rubber-bladed squeegee but it is not very effective -- I get lots of chatter of the blades, and I have to use a lot of pressure and it still leaves droplets on the film. I've used a sponge squeegee in the past with success.)