[pure-silver] Re: Chemical Blues

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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