Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]HA! Sorry about the loss of your wife's Coke! I have found that with bottled developer, that a whisper of the anti-dust gas- usually a tri-fluoromethane or other high molecular weight gas will displace any oxygen, unless you shake the bottle, and forms a sort of floating gas cover over the liquid. I have kept D-76, when I replenished, and mixed the developer each in one gallon batches, for months with no deleterious effect. I just 'Whooshed' a bit of gas into the developer, and the replenisher, both, whenever I did film, and it kept quite well. Give that a try! Also, cooling some developers down too much will cause crystalization as some of the solutions are near saturation, even at room temerature. Dan ( Heck, the freezer needed cleaning, anyway!) Post - ----- Original Message ----- From: Nathan Wajsman <belgiangator@yahoo.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 5:59 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Film - freeze or cool? > --- Christer Almqvist <christer@almqvist.net> wrote: > > > > However, Nathan, don't put your Xtol stock in the > > freezer. If you use > > tightly closed, full brown glass bottles, you do not > > even need a fridge. > > ;-) > > > No XTOL in my freezer, especially after one day last > week when my wife put a plastic bottle of Coke in the > freezer to cool it down quickly and then forgot about > it... > > Nathan > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! > http://mail.yahoo.com/