Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Failure is not an option...I just got another gallon of TF-4 in the mail
today with a borax order, so I gotta make it work. I'll try distilled water
and letting it sit for a while to see if it clears. If it doesn't it's going
to go through a coffee filter or two.
Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com
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From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Lee
England
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 5:11 AM
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: [Leica] Photographers Formulary fixer
Jeffrey wrote:
> I made the mistake of buying and using Photographers Formulary Rapid
> Fix. It comes in a quart bottle and is very turbid. I mixed it with
> water using the directions on the bottle, and the resulting solution
> was still very turbid. It worked fine as a fixer, but even after 30
> minutes of running water rinse in a Paterson tank, the 4 rolls of
> Tri-X are completely speckled with whatever undissolved chemical was
> making the fix turbid. Fortunately, the Polaroid dust filter wipes out
> 90% of it, as the specks are very, very small.
>
> Anyone have this happen? I'm tempted to pour the rest of the bottle
> down the commode.
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
Jeffrey,
It's your water. New Orleans water never was worth drinking, and it's
got to be worse following Katrina. I use TF4 all the time. The
instructions suggest distilled water, and I used that for a time. Then one
night when I was out I used filtered Natchez, Miss. water--it worked fine.
The turbidity should clear in about 10-15 minutes.
The Kentwood bottled water people made a fortune selling to everyone in
New Orleans. I never could drink the New Orleans water unless I was
desperate and there was a lot of ice in it. It's from the Miss. River, but
you know that. There's no telling what's in it. That river drains half the
continent.
Lee England
Natchez, Mississippi USA
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