[pure-silver] Re: Cleaning Brown Bottles
- From: Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:05:05 -0500
Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> Someone gave me several nice old Kodak brown glass bottles. One of
> them was crudded up beyond use, but the others are almost usable.
> I say "almost" because there is some residue on the inside that will
> not come off with repeated hot water/soap/rise cycles. (I believe
> they may once have held D-76.) The bottle opening is, perhaps
> about 20mm but the bottle diameter is probably around 80mm. This
> means it's kind of difficult to get into the bottle to scrub it
> out in any reasonable manner.
>
> Any ideas out there of how to get the residue out of these bottles
> or should I just toss them into the garbage?
I used to work with professional chemists and those who used laboratory
reagents. I could get all the empty brown glass ones with Bakelite tops
I wanted. I accepted isopropanol, acetone, xylene, hydrochloric acid,
and similar bottles, but did not bother with syrupy stuff or chlorinated
hydrocarbons because I was not sure if I could clean the bottles
adequately. When that source dried up, I bought some new. If you get a
full carton of bottles, they are really quite cheap. Got mine from some
bottle company on the Internet.
If it was D-76, some kind of development system cleaner might work. You
could also try BBs or something and shake them up with the bottle partly
filled with water and a little detergent or something. But at some point
you may find you time is worth more and just buy the bottles. I find the
500ml and 1000ml bottles the most useful I have some 4000ml bottles and
some 2000 ml bottles as well.
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