[pure-silver] Re: shamefully off topic


Nick Zentena <zentena@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 I pour my RA4 chemicals back into glass storage bottles. I find if the 
developer bottle is topped up it keeps fine. Blix never seems to go bad. So I 
make up 2x the amount of blix that I do developer.  Some times there is black 
crud in the bottom of the bottle. But that's the worst thing I've had to deal 
with. 

 I also do a prewash with the RA4 paper which stops the paper from sucking up 
all the developer. I've told this is bad since it dilutes the developer. But 
so far so good. I guess the stop helps protect the blix from the developer 
pH.

 Nick
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I buy the Kodak 1 gallon RA4 kits and mix one quart at a time.  I process the 
paper in a CPP-2, with a pre-soak and a stop bath.  I reuse the chemistry - 
70ml per 8x10 print.  I drain each step into a beaker, then pour it back into 
the original brown glass bottle when I'm done.  I've had the partially used 
chemicals last up to 3 months this way, and can get up to 50 8x10's from a 
quart with no degradation of colors.  


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