Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 1/10/02 10:05 PM, Don Dory at dorysrus@mindspring.com wrote: > John, there is obviously some crud in one or all of your solutions. I would > suggest you filter everything just before it goes into the film. Filter > media can be the inelegant coffee filter to lab grade media from the same > places the reagent bottles come from. Yeah, I'll have to do some tracking. Like I said all the plastic bottles were new, I used 'Culligan' filtered water to mix all the chemicals. I didn't see any specks of anything in the Dev, stop, or fix when pouring the measured amounts in to white cups. It leaves me guessing with the rinse... Which I may now use a similar Ilford method and agitate a few rounds of filtered water instead of tap... > If you think it is coming from the final rinse then purchase a pint of > denatured alcohol from a paint supplier and do the final rinse in that. It > will dry very fast and will not leave water marks. It is also very > flammable so don't take that hair dryer into the bath with it. Can you really use that??? - -- John Chicago, IL http://SlideOne.com ==================== - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html