Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John: Is your Culligan tank fresh? If so then you might be having problems with the rock salt that is used to soften your water, if in fact that's still the way that Culligan does it. Jim John Straus wrote: > > 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??? > -- > John > Chicago, IL > http://SlideOne.com > ==================== > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html