[Leica] was Rapid Fix now distilled water

[chs2018 at med.cornell.edu (Chris Saganich)]

Jeffery,

How about shipping some distilled water to NO?  I have access to hundreds 
of liters.  I just weighed a 20 liter jug and it is 50 lbs.  USPS for 50 
lbs, 5 day parcel post to NO, is about $30.00.  I can scrounge up a proper 
jug and the water itself is free.  Let me know, I'll make the arrangements.

Chris S.


At 05:19 PM 3/1/2006, you wrote:
>I am definitely going to get that distiller. In the long run, it should save
>me money. You are right about the charcoal filter...it removes trace organic
>chemical, but I'm not worried about those...it is the inorganic stuff from
>the Mississippi that makes things hard to dissolve.
>
>Thanks much, Jonathan.
>
>Jeffery Smith
>New Orleans, LA
>http://www.400tx.com
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
>[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan
>Borden
>Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 3:40 PM
>To: Leica Users Group
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Photographers Formulary Rapid Fix
>
>
>Jeffery Smith wrote:
>
> > The scanned negatives are covered with tiny white spots, so it is
> > definitely
> > something on the film, not pinholes. Two of the three solutions I
> > put on the
> > film were not completely dissolved. The borax bath in divided D-76
> > doesn't
> > stay completely dissolved, but borox is so soluble in water, it
> > would have
> > come off in the rinse. I don't know what the cloudiness in the
> > fixer was,
> > but I didn't use distilled water (there is virtually none in the
> > city right
> > now...I went to five stores and found a total of 2 gallons). I'm
> > thinking it
> > is the cloudy stuff in the fix. I'll try distilled and make up the
> > solution
> > a few hours before I use it. I wish I had a magnetic stirrer.
>
>Consider a water purifier -- I bought one at Sears:
>
>http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/product.do?pid=03234480000 ,
>
>no need to use the charcoal filter packs. You might be surprised at
>what gunk you will find in the pot after the water has been boiled off.
>
>Jonathan
>
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Chris Saganich, Sr. Physicist
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
New York Presbyterian Hospital

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