Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/03
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At 12:42 PM -0600 1/3/02, John Straus wrote:
>on 1/3/02 11:39 AM, Mark Rabiner at mark@markrabiner.com wrote:
>
>> The bottom line is you just cant trust the stuff overnight in a
>> partially filled container.
>> So i just don't do that.
>> But you gotta get some little bottles.
>> And you gotta know the territory!
>
>Does this mean that even at full strength it won't last 1-2 months in a
>partially filled bottle as Kodak states???
>
It might but don't do it because unlike most other developers, there
are no visible clues when Xtol goes bad, and when it goes bad, it is
as effective as tap water.
Stock solution in a full bottle keeps a long time; I've kept it up to
6 months and others report up to a year, but partially full bottles
should be used, decanted into smaller bottles or filled with an inert
mass like marbles until there is no air at the top.
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