Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/14

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Jobos & XTol
From: "Austin Franklin" <austin@darkroom.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:18:44 -0500

> Yes, you can do the deed with the 2500-series of tanks: The fluid
> capacities shown are MINIMUMS; in fact, with one of the drums rated at 275
> ml, I can actually get over 800 ml into it (I think it maxed out at about
> 1200 ml). Per Ken at Jobo, it's okay to fill until chemicals start
> dribbling out the drain pipe.

The numbers I cited were not minimums, they were actual measured numbers,
with cores, reels and film, placed in the processor, allowed to agitate and
then removed and measured.

> > A two reel tank (two 35mm reels - 2523 tank) holds 450ml horizontally.
> > That
> > means you can only do one roll at both 1:2 or 1:3.
> >
> > The 5 reel tank (five 35mm reels - 2553 holds 1000ml, so you can do 3
> > rolls
> > at 1:2, and 2 rolls at 1:3.