It's rather hard to control the bleaching action to exactly reproduce the color around the pin hole. Far easier to just bleach entirely and then using spotting color. -----Original Message----- From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of anclancy@xxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 12:50 PM To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [pure-silver] Re: bleaching pinholes thanks, i remembered the process with the toothpick. But you are using straight iodine? I tried spotting the negative with Kodak's red scarlett spotting dyes, but it is leaving much too large of a spot (well, rather , I am leaving to much area) that i really want to go back and spot. Am hoping that this method will leave a much smaller area to go back and spot. Practice is surely in order for this!! -------------- Original message -------------- > I posted the use of a toothpick to apply the iodine. The size of the > point of > the toothpick can be reduced with a razor blade or with a piece of sandpaper. > You want to completely reduce the pin hole and then use spotting color on the > resulting white spot. > > Jerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of anclancy@xxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 11:25 AM > To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [pure-silver] bleaching pinholes > > > Some where in my messed up filing system i thought i had a message > from the old > pure-silver group regarding using tinure(sp?) of Iodine for spot bleaching small > pin holes. Does this ring a bell with the "old timers"? Something about using a > toothpick with the Iodine, but i don't remember if the Iodine was "cut" to > reduce strength, and then of course i am assuming one would re-fix after the > process. > > Does this spark a memory chip for anyone? > > regards, > ann clancy > > ====================================================================== > ========== > ============================= > 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. ================================================================================ ============================= 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.