"Stuart Droker" wrote in message ...
You may be in trouble. It is very difficult to separate wet negatives. You
could try your water solution, but instead of soap, try Kodak Photo Flo.
Lots o' Luck

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Kodak responded with the following::

Caveats: first, try a museum that specializes in handling photo negs.
and the following:
Paraphrasing:

Put negatives in cold water. Try to gently separate the negs. DO NOT
USE
force. Let soak a while longer, then try again, always working
gently.
Keep water cold, even to the point of putting the batch in the
refrigerator.

Finish negative bath with photo flo. Then place on screens to dry at
room temperature [I asked what they mean by screens but haven't
received a reply yet].
Another caveat they added was: "Negatives could be ruined by this
process.

They did not recommend any type of soap or solvent [other than that
great solvent of all time: water].

Kind of disappointed that they recommended a museum specialist in
negatives: I would think that person's first stop would be Kodak
Techs.

Anyway, I am going to take a few strips stuck together and try a
minute part of dish soap in cold water and see what happens. If it
does not soften the image emulsion [emulsion image?], I'll go for it.
Since I have to do the dishes once in a while, I know "DAWN" is wicked
stuff, so will probably try IVORY.

Hope you all never run into this.

And don't do anything stupid like I did by sliding in a contact strip
in with the negative in the sleeve.

Gin