Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One year ago I mixed a five liter package of Xtol. I put it in a Kodak 5 liter plastic bottle. http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/products/chemistry/bottles/storageBottles.jhtml and used 1.5 liters of it immediately. The bottle sat under my darkroom sink since then - one year. Yesterday, I was rummaging around under my sink and found the 5 liter bottle of Xtol containing 3.5 liters. I decided to test it. I poured a few ml into a small beaker and put a strip of film in it. Within three minutes, the strip was black. This told me that the developer was still working. I shot a quick roll of Tri-X, mixed it 1:3 (62.5 ml Xtol to 187.5 ml water) and guess what... I is still perfectly good. This is pretty good stuff! Jim - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html