[pure-silver] Re: OT-- chroma list

Dear Uncle,

I must say that I am dismayed by your recent post (below). As you well (should) know, the only reason that most of us are on this list is that we anticipate the incisor...er, incisive wit, the way you can make an amalgam from seemingly unrelated dubious data, and cram that amalgam into our brains with mercurial speed. Indeed, I have been waiting lo these long months for your (no doubt) upcoming directorial debut with "Molar Express". I expected your injections of humor to leave us numb with laughter. But here you are, like any cup, mug, or glass, with an ordinary - I repeat, *ordinary* post: "I bought these on eBay now how do I fix them". Pardon me while I say "ho-hum". Unlike the previously mentioned drinking vessels, we expect more from our Stein.

Please forgive the weak attempt at chiding you; I only hope that it will extract a more humorous post the next time around.

Nephew Bill

On Saturday, February 25, 2006, at 07:23 PM, Stein wrote:

Dear Dave,
 
     Today's posting on the Pure Silver - Chroma list concerns enormous good fortune with a sting in the tail.
 
     I bought a cubic yard of Jobo tanks from a eBay sale last month. They are the 2500 series and were used to run B/W processing in a Sydney commercial lab. I guess most of them were used in the rotation mode, but 3 seem to have been set on end and used as deep dip tanks or washers. Hard to say, but the end result on the roataion ones has been a silvery-black deposit on the interior of all the components while the vertical ones have a spectacular encrustation of old fixer on the outside.
 
    I have wiped most of the silvery gunk from the tanks but wondered if minute residues will affect their use in a C 41 process. Any ideas, people?
 
    And as for the fixer crud - I think the tanks will be fine if I can get it off. Will conventional acids like hydrochloric or sulphuric do it or do I need to go more exotic?
 
     Uncle Dick 

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