[pure-silver] Re: De-ionised versus distilled water for XTOL
- From: Claudio Bonavolta <claudio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:53:11 +0100
I too use Protectan (or simply butane/propane gaz) where I cannot use different
bottle sizes (i.e. color chems like for E-6).
For Xtol, I prefer the approach of having different brown glass bottles
(pharmacy type) *fully* filled.
No air is better than trying to replace it by another gaz.
Another point, Xtoll keeps very well when ... dry in its original pack and it's
pretty cheap (B&H: 10$ / 5 liters), so I'm not really worried if I need to dump
a small part of it ...
Claudio Bonavolta
www.bonavolta.ch
----- Message d'origine -----
De: Peter Badcock <peter.badcock@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 00:27:10 +1100
Sujet: [pure-silver] Re: De-ionised versus distilled water for XTOL
À: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks Cor,I put my 5L of XTOL stock into brown airtight bottles too. Each
time I use some from a bottle I spray in some of Tetenal's Protectan
Antioxidant agent.I'm aware Kodak put chelating agents into XTOL, but I want to
squeeze as much life as possible out of the XTOL by using water that has
minimal iron and copper in it to start with.rgdsPeter
On 5 January 2012 23:47, <C.Breukel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Peter,
Cannot answer your question on de-ionised water, but I seem to recall that
Kodak puts chemicals in Xtol so mixing with less than pure (various tap
waters) water has no ill effect on the developer (I guess chelating agents such
as EDTA or so).
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