[pure-silver] Re: Chemical Blues
- From: Dennis Purdy <dlp4777@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:21:58 -0800
Hi Adrienne,
I notice that Freestyle carries it in 2 sizes. They have a huge
customer base and fast turnaround on must stuff as well as they are
very good about taking returns. So I would say it is worth a try.
They are also very quick.
Regarding Sodium Sulfite, I just bought a 50 pound bag, technical
grade, from a swimming pool supply house yesterday for 42 dollars. I
have in the past bought it from a regular chemical supply house for a
bit more but well below what you will pay at a photo store.
If you have a need for sodium carbonate you can also go the same
route with that. I bought a 50 pound bag of that as well from the
swimming pool place for 35 dollars. It is also available at some art
stores as dye fixative and you can even use Arm and Hammer Super
Washing Soda. All much cheaper than the Photo store stuff.
Dennis
On Jan 31, 2009, at 06:58, Adrienne Moumin wrote:
I am wondering how to solve this issue, and would greatly
appreciate any suggestions:
My soup of choice is Sodium Sulfite + Edwal FG-7. Since Big Yellow
recently stopped making the SS (I could always depend on my local
chain to have ONE on hand for me), I recently ponied up the cash
for a 20-lb drum from Artcraft.
I had some FG-7 left from a previous film run, and all was well w/
the first few runs till I ran out & went to buy more...
Twice I had to return the FG-7 to the store (which also carries
just ONE of this) because it was a dark reddish brown color. It's
supposed to be tan to lavender. So I special ordered three from
them, making sure it was from a different lot vis-a-vis their
internal warehouse code #'s. Again, it is the dark color, so I
have to return it.
Obviously I need to give up on my local supplier, a friendly place
where everyone knows me so it will be no problem returning this for
the third time.
I am fearful of mail-ordering from B&H or someone else lest this
also happen again, and it will be a bigger hassle returning it w/
the shipping costs, and an even longer period of frustration when I
just want to process stuff I have have sitting around from back in
Oct. for a long-term project. Artcraft doesn't carry this product.
To add to my frustration, I googled "FG7", and every single site,
from adorama to calumet to digital truth, apug, freestyle and
amazon, is tagged in the search results with "this site may harm
your computer".
If anyone has any suggestions, info, or sources, I would greatly
appreciate it if you would let me know.
Thanks in advance,
Adrienne Moumin
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