Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Martin, Yes, I am very serious. I have been using rubbing alcohol as the final rinse for over 40 years. Several years ago in Darkroom Techniques magazine someone asked Chapman who writes the column on chemistry about using rubbing alcohol on negs and he was all for it. Another advantage to it is that your negs dry much faster. Re squeege on negs, I think that that is opening yourself to scratch troubles, a wet neg has soft emulsion and should never be touched. All the above has worked very well for me for the past 66 years of doing my own b & W processing. I load up on bottles when the local Rite Aid or similar chain has the hooch on special at three for a buck. Richard Mendocino, CA At 08:11 PM 1/29/01 -0500, you wrote: >Richard Comen jotted down the following: > >> Try dumping the photo flow and after the distilled water pour ordinary >> rubbing alcohol into the tank, then hang to dry. > >Rubbing alcohol!?!? Are you serious? > >M. > >-- >Martin Howard | It isn't an Information Superhighway, >Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | it's an Information Railway. Only the >email: howard.390@osu.edu | barons control speech, not transportation. >www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +------------------------------------------- > > > >