Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/01

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Subject: [Leica] Attack of the purple chemistry: JOBO, T-MAX, and XTOL
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Sun Aug 1 13:58:36 2004
References: <4cfa589b040801123656e900e6@mail.gmail.com> <7B5EC9F0CDECF9E484DA8C6A@hindolveston.reid.org>
 
This happened earlier, Brian. With the ATL-1000 there is no provision
for a hypo clearing agent. I think this came out of the stop bath or
maybe the developer itself (I didn't see that empty into the waste
chemicals container).

Thanks!

Adam

On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 12:39:40 -0700, Brian Reid
<reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:
> I always get purple out of my hypo clearing bath, which is the last actual 
> chemical.
> 
> > The results appear to be okay (I was using 1:1 XTOL and the Kodak
> > recommended times as a starting point) but the effluent chemistry was
> > a most definite PURPLE. Was the chemistry bad? I've had batches of
> > Tri-X that resulted in purple chemistry but not THIS purple.
> 
> 
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In reply to: Message from abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] Attack of the purple chemistry: JOBO, T-MAX, and XTOL)
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] Attack of the purple chemistry: JOBO, T-MAX, and XTOL)