[pure-silver] Re: Favorite Print Developer

I use tongs most of the time, for smaller prints.  I only
put my hands in the developer when making 16x20 or larger
prints, since tongs will put dents in sheets that big.
I did use my bare hands until I noticed my skin itching
and turning red afterwards.  Now I use nitrile groves.

-Charlie


--- On Tue, 9/23/08, BOB KISS <bobkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: BOB KISS <bobkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Favorite Print Developer
> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 11:29 AM
> DEAR CHARLIE,
>       I assume you either use print tongs or gloves. You
> don't put your
> hands directly in the developer and other solutions do you?
>  If you use
> tongs or latex/vinyl/nitrile gloves and you STILL get an
> allergic reaction
> to Dektol then you should definitely switch to something
> like the
> Silvergrain stuff.  
>       If you DO put your hands in the solutions, STOP!  Use
> tongs or
> gloves.  Most developing agents are based on Phenols,
> compounds constructed
> around the benzene ring.  They ALL lodge in your liver and
> are VERY hard to
> remove (chellate; sp?).  Metol is a bad one for allergies
> and Kodak has had
> warnings about it on all if their developer packaging for
> as long as I have
> used their developers (1961).
>               CHEERS!
>                       BOB
> 



      
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