Stephen Anchell's Darkroom Cookbook (2ed) has 3 developer stain removers, including #185 for clothing: 5% solution of KMnO3 followed (when set) by a 10% solution of NaHSO3. There is a warning about possible bleaching of coloured fabrics, so test in an unobtrusive place first. Don Sweet ----- Original Message ----- From: Eric Nelson To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 12:48 PM Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Developer Stain Remover- Kodak stain remover S-10? I just found this one posted in a forum and wondering if anyone has experience with it before I apply it around the zipper area? I think the stain as is would be better than if the fabric was bleached out! =) "Kodak stain remover S-10: Water..............................96oz Kodak Thiourea.............10oz Kodak Citric Acid...........10oz Water to make................ 1 gallon Wet the stain with this solution and wait for the stain to disappear. Old stains may require more than one application and a longer time (several minutes)to disappear. The garment should be thoroughly washed after the stains have been removed. The above formula & description is from an old version of the Compact Photo Lab Index." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Eric Nelson <emanmb@xxxxxxxxx> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 6:35:30 PM Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Developer Stain Remover Thanks Claudio. Unfortunately one of those is for fixer stains and I have a developer stain. The developer's where I like to splash around the most. =) The other one contains sulphuric so I don't think that one will do too well on clothes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Claudio Bonavolta <claudio@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 4:19:45 PM Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Developer Stain Remover The old Kodak publication J-1 has a couple of stain removers (page 49): http://www.bonavolta.ch/hobby/files/Kodak%20j-1.pdf Claudio Bonavolta http://www.bonavolta.ch Eric Nelson wrote: > I've just found a nice little developer stain on a decent pair of pants and was wondering if anyone had a formula for removing this. > I found an MSDS for a product that does this which lists ethylene glycol and thiourea as the ingredients. Thiourea makes sense certainly. I can't see buying the ethylene glycol if that's integral to the performance of the remover, and I would just get the product. But if my apothecary has the ingredients, I might as well make it myself. > tia > eric > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.39/2134 - Release Date: 05/25/09 18:14:00 > > ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.