Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] XTOL Mixing
From: "Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@hfx.andara.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:39:15 -0400
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Marc:

At 08:53 PM 2/17/2002 -0500, Marc James Small wrote:
>At 07:55 PM 2/17/02 -0400, Robert G. Stevens wrote:
> >Up here in Canada Xtol cost $14 CAD ($8.75 USD) for five litres.  It seems
> >pretty cheap and unless your hobby is photographic chemistry, it doesn't
> >look like their would be much savings in mixing it yourself.
>
>Down here in the US, XTOL is not generally available outside of larger
>cities, as most photo stores refuse to carry it.  Thus, the interest in
>developing a self-mixing formula.

Just to be a sh*t disturber; are the chemical ingredients more available in 
the towns like yours;-)  In my original post, I was going to suggest that 
the shipping on all the chemicals would probably more than the cost of a 
few 5 litre kits of Xtol.

Regards,

Robert

>Marc
>
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In reply to: Message from "Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@hfx.andara.com> (Re: [Leica] XTOL Mixing)
Message from Marc James Small <msmall@infi.net> ([Leica] XTOL Mixing)