[pure-silver] Re: cleaning containers

I highly recommend the wine bottle idea used with a suction pump and special 
stopper. These are available at wine shops.. you get a set of stoppers and a 
pump. Use the pump to evacuate all the air from the bottle ($15 USD) after each 
use of the chemical. Developers last months (no kidding) in these things, you 
get no evaporation (so no dried residues form), and the wine bottle supply 
justifies throwing containers away when you want to (you'll rarely need to). 
Pretty handy for people who get into the darkroom only intemittently.

The only washing I do is to rinse the bottles between batches. 

J. Stewart
Leesburg, VA


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Becky 
  To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 2:41 AM
  Subject: [pure-silver] cleaning containers


  Hello everyone. It seems like it's been so long....  I haven't had the chance 
to do any photographing in quite some time. The divorce is final now and slowly 
I'm getting back to a normal life. That means I'll be able to do some 
photographing and darkroom work again in the future. I'm moving my darkroom to 
my mom's property, where I now live, and am wondering a few things. I was 
wondering about the old bottles of developers and fixers and wondering if it 
will hurt anything to just rinse them out with water or should I start with 
fresh containers. They have been setting there with old chemicals in them for 
over a year now. I hate to have to buy all new containers being that I'm on a 
tight budget. Will the buildup in the bottles cause any trouble for me? 

  Becky Lynn

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