Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/01

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Subject: [Leica] Attack of the purple chemistry: JOBO, T-MAX, and XTOL
From: jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Sun Aug 1 13:57:59 2004

Technical Pan always produces a purple effluent for me.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA


-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Brian
Reid
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 2:40 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Attack of the purple chemistry: JOBO, T-MAX, and
XTOL

I always get purple out of my hypo clearing bath, which is the last
actual chemical.

> The results appear to be okay (I was using 1:1 XTOL and the Kodak
> recommended times as a starting point) but the effluent chemistry was
> a most definite PURPLE. Was the chemistry bad? I've had batches of
> Tri-X that resulted in purple chemistry but not THIS purple.


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