Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] [OT] Messed up first roll during processing...?
From: John Straus <Mail@SlideOne.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 23:32:36 -0600

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???
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John 
Chicago, IL 
http://SlideOne.com
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