[pure-silver] Re: Opinions on chemistry longevity

I'd bet money that the Rodinal still works fine. I bought a bottle at an old camera shop that had had it on the shelves for years. It had turned sort of brown, but worked just fine. Low fog, high accutance just like always.


----- Original Message ----- From: "jeffrey" <puresilver@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 6:36 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Opinions on chemistry longevity


Someone recently gave me 10 unopened 125ml bottles of Rodinal. These are old enough that the boxes are not the current mostly-red box, but a box that is mostly white, with a red band with white letters "AGFA", then a green band with black letters "RODINAL". I see nothing on the box or on the bottle to indicate a date.

How long could you reasonably expect Rodinal to remain good in an unopened container?

I was also given quite a bit of old Koday dry chemistry (D-11, D-76, etc.) If the bags did not get wet, do they decay enough so that 20 years is too long to expect use?

I also got a glass amphule (sp?) of Gold Chloride that looks to come from the 1960's. Could that still be good?

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