Dear all, David Vestal in "Advanced B&W Printing" gives the following solution for washing aid for paper: water 3 liters sodum sulfite 80 g water to make 4 liters Which so far is all right, then another one for film: water 3 liters sodium silfite 80 g SODIUM BISULFITE 8 g water to make 4 liters Today I went to the local chemistry shop, and was told that they have SODIUM BISULFITE (NaHSO3) as a 37% solution. It's also at least 10 times more expensive than sodium sulfite. The questions are: a) is the NaHSO3 the right sodium bisulfite, the one needed for the wash aid, and if yes b) how do I come to a 8 g equivalent of a 37% solution? Thank you very much in advance. Also some (rather long) time ago someone on the list (I think it must have been Richard Knoppow, but I may be wrong, quoted another wash aid, that included a third element, a salt something something. Is it at all possible to get that recipe, please - I lost all my records due to both a move to another place and a computer upgrade... Thank you very much in advance. -- Best regards, Fyodor mailto:fyodor@xxxxxxxxxxxx ============================================================================================================= 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.