Claudio, I mix 3 liters at a time with distilled water. I use distilled as I have high levels of minerals in my water. I will refer you to Richards formula as it is off the list here I originally requested and received such. I would avoid mixing any photo chemicals dry. Robert Hall www.RobertHall.com > > You're interesting me as I have some difficulties to find sodium > metaborate but have borax and sodium hydroxyde ... > > What's the procedure ? > Do you really make sodium metaborate in crystalline form to re-use it later > or do you just mix the proportional quantities of both directly into the > final developer/fixer/... solution ? > > So I went from commercial chemicals to mixing raw chemicals, and now I'm > going to make the raw chemicals ... > Anyone having the formula to change lead into gold ? :-) > > Thanks, > Claudio >