Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>In any event, on the same URL you see that the stock solution can be kept >up to >1 year in a tightly sealed bottle. >Nathan That's what I had originally heard, but then I was told that figure had been revised to 6 months. Hope it's not true. I mixed up a 5 liter batch last April and it's still developing film, so so far so good. Next time I think I'm going to store it in 16oz bottles rather than 1 liter bottles just to keep that much more of it in full bottles for as long as possible. Guy >Peter Klein wrote: > >> I just picked up some XTOL to try. I was told at Glazer's in Seattle that >> the 1-liter pack has been discontinued. As Dr. McCoy might say, "Dammit, >> Jim, I'm an amateur, not a mini-lab!" >> >> Question: How long will the stock solution keep reliably if kept in full >> bottles? I've got one "accordion" bottle to keep air out of the bottle in >> use. Should I be OK keeping the other 4 liters in full, well-washed out >> green plastic soda pop bottles, stored in a dark cabinet? Or would I be >> safer buying some brown storage bottles or getting some heavy drinker's old >> Seagram's brown glass bourbon containers? >> >> I assume the figures in the Film Developer Cookbook are good starting >> points, right? >> >> Man, at the Secret LUG Dilution of 1:3, it's gonna take a long time to get >> through 5 liters of the Elixer of Life! >> >> --Peter Klein >> Seattle, WA >> --Peter >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > >-- >Nathan Wajsman >Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland > >e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch > >Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/ >General photo site: http://belgiangator.tripod.com/ >Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html