Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:46 AM 1999-01-23 EST, Bob Bedwell wrote: > >I have not been as careful as several of you have in >storage practices. I do not have gallon glass amber jugs and frankly I don't >know where to get them. My best friend is a pharmacist at a very high-volume >pharmacy and he hasn't seen any glass gallon jugs come into his store for >years. I have een using those brown plastic jugs that you purchase in the >camera shops. Well, you CAN still find gallon glass jugs, brown or otherwise: apple cider and the like come in them, and my local pharmacy, at any rate, can special-order them. But I do not store XTOL in gallon jugs; I've NEVER stored a developer in a gallon jug. I use 1 liter (34 oz) or 500cc (17 oz) brown glass bottles as my primary storage, and these I can buy over the counter at my local pharmacy. For overflow storage, when I run out of the regular bottles, I use quart clear-glass V-8 bottles (yes, yes, yes: I drink the V-8 first, and wash the bottle). I have had bad, bad experiences with plastic; even the best plastic allows air in through its porosity, and this dramatically reduces the longevity of the developer. Stop-bath, fixer, and Photo-Flo I do store in glass gallon jugs. C-41 chemistry and Ilfochrome stuff I store in quart glass bottles. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!