The amount that you're making is not important. It takes the same amount of time to make 10 liters as to make 1. I use a good balance for measuring small amounts and a postal scale to measure things such as hypo for fixer or carbonate for paper developer. If you can afford one, a magnetic stirrer removes a lot of the tedium from mixing your own. You can even get them with a built in heating element to make things even faster. -----Original Message----- From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Justin F. Knotzke Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:48 AM To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Mixing your own chemicals was (Hamster was (Glass versus Plastic containers)) <quote who=Nick Zentena [date=11/1/2005 09:39]/> > For me one of the advantages of mixing my own is I don't need to mix > up 5 > litres of stuff. Unless I want to of course. I also rarely mix stock > solutions. Instead mixing straight up the diluted solution. Ok, you've all peaked my interest. I promised myself photography would be about taking pictures, not weighing powders.. But I'm a sucker for anything new. From other posts on other threads, my understanding, is the simplest to start with is paper developer. Is this so? I go through paper developer and fixer the fastest. When mixing either from scratch, how much time does it take to mix say two litres of each? Thanks P.S Thanks Nick for the tip on the book. I just ordered it now. J -- Justin F. Knotzke jknotzke@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.shampoo.ca ======================================================================== ===================================== To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. ============================================================================================================To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.