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A New Name For Rodinal?
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
Richard Knoppow wrote: How difficult is it to obtain the raw chemicals to make developer there? Some are considered hazardous materials. In the US there is a sort of paranoia about anything chemical even though you can buy really dangerous stuff for house cleaning at any grocery store. We are even more paranoid about cleaners. For example, you can no longer buy ammonia here. A variety of good developers can be made up with very few supplies. The main ones are sodium Sulfite, sodium carbonate, sodium hydroxide, borax (sodium metaborate or Kodalk can be made in solution from the last two), potassium bromide "Metol", hydroquinone. More can be made if you can obtain Phenidone in some form (like Kodak Dimezone). Even a Rodinal clone can be made although the exact Rodinal formula and method of manufacture continues to be proprietary. There is a chemical supply store here, although I have never dealt with them. They will sell things like sodium hydroxide (lye), but I'm not sure what else they have. Most places that sell chemicals or lab equipment require a tax number. There are few swimming pools, so no one sells sulfite, borax and washing soda are not used for cleaning here. When I wanted baking soda to use in cooking, I had to buy it in a 100 gram bottle at the pharmacy. Now you can get it in the supermarket (Arm and Hammer brand no less). What I need to do is figure out how to make a developer from Akamol (the local generic Tylenol) baking soda and salt. :-) At what point do you say all this is to much trouble and move to a more hospitable country? -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 09:20:01 up 19 days, 1:11, 3 users, load average: 4.20, 4.18, 4.17 |
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A New Name For Rodinal?
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
We are even more paranoid ... Paranoia being a delusional and self-destructive mental aberration ... I would rather suffer loss than suffer paranoia. -- Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio Darkroom Automation: F-Stop Timers, Enlarging Meters http://www.darkroomautomation.com/da-main.htm n o lindan at ix dot netcom dot com |
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A New Name For Rodinal?
Keith Tapscott. wrote:
David Nebenzahl;794381 Wrote: On 2/8/2009 11:18 AM Keith Tapscott. spake thus: - http://www.apug.org/forums/forum37/5...e-change.html- "Blazinal"? WTF?!?!?! Say it ain't so. It's still a "CRAPPY DEVELOPER", compared to others that are easily available. (Does last a long time, I will give it that.) I don`t use the stuff either David. I just wanted to point out that it will no longer be called Rodinal as the new manufacturers are not allowed to use the old Agfa trade names. Get "The Darkroom Cookbook" by Steve Anchell or easier yet check the APUG site which has quite a few developer formulas in it. |
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