[rollei_list] Re: XTOL Mix-It-Yourself Formula
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:11:22 -0400
At 04:24 AM 7/27/2010, Richard Knoppow wrote:
> Kodak stopped selling the one liter size because they
>could not seal it correctly and too many of them arrived
>with the Phenidone oxidized and dead.
Richard
Please pay attention. The 5 Liter size is simply
unusable by a small-volume home processor. And
as commercial labs do not favor XTOL, it is no
wonder that the product is not selling. If the
sealing of the 1 Liter package was a problem,
then the obvious solution was to develop better
packaging, not to render the product unsalable by
putting it out in a huge quantity. Even a 3
Liter bag might have worked, but not 5 Liters,
especially in the US, where home processors are
pretty tightly wedded to the quart/liter size,
or, at the most, 1 gallon. 5 Liters is 1 1/3
gallons, for Pete's sake, an impossible quantity.
There is a substitute formula based on orange
juice which apparently matches XTOL's performance
quite closely, and that is the formula I am
attempting to find. The alternatives suggested
to date all use exotic chemistry which would
require me to set up an account with Fisher Scientific.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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