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RE: Potassium Oxalate recipe



Bob,

Sodium oxalate is not very soluble, so yoy can not get to concentrations used for potassium oxalate in palladium/platinum developers. Woud it work at all? I assume it would give you some results in terms of developing the prints.

Marek, Houston


From:  BOB KISS <bobkiss@caribsurf.com>
Reply-To:  alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
To:  alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
Subject:  RE: Potassium Oxalate recipe
Date:  Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:46:19 -0400
>OOOPS!  I sent this question before reading all my e-mails.  It was already
>asked.  Sorry, but still hoping for an answer.
>*****I am interested in the possibility of making Sodium Oxalate for PT/PD
>printing.
> CHEERS!
> BOB
>
>  Please check my website: http://www.bobkiss.com/
>
>"Live as if you are going to die tomorrow.  Learn as if you are going to
>live forever".  Mahatma Gandhi
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: BOB KISS [mailto:bobkiss@caribsurf.com]
>Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 9:05 AM
>To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
>Subject: RE: Potassium Oxalate recipe
>
>DEAR ERIC,
>         Has anyone tried Sodium Oxalate as a developer?  It is SO much
>easier for
>me to find Sodium Carbonate and Oxalic acid here in Barbados.  Would it
>work?  If so what "recipe" would you recommend.
>                         CHEERS!
>                                 BOB
>
>  Please check my website: http://www.bobkiss.com/
>
>"Live as if you are going to die tomorrow.  Learn as if you are going to
>live forever".  Mahatma Gandhi
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Eric Neilsen [mailto:ejnphoto@sbcglobal.net]
>Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 7:26 PM
>To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
>Subject: RE: Potassium Oxalate recipe
>
>John, 2 lbs of Pot Carb with 1.75 lbs to make 1 gallon of water. 1 lbs = 457
>g and 1 gallon = 3.8 l ( top of my head but close enough as it is just POT
>OX).
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>Mix you Pot Card into cool distilled water; about 1/2 your total volume.
>SLOWLY  add your Ox Acid as it WILL BUBBLE!!!!.  Add to completion and top
>off with water to make final volume.
>
>
>Eric
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Brewer [mailto:john@johnbrewerphotography.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 6:23 PM
> > To: Alt list
> > Subject: Potassium Oxalate recipe
> >
> > Hi list
> >
> > Does anyone have a recipe for potassium oxalate (as a Pt/Pd dev) using
> > potassium carbonate and oxalic acid in metric units.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > John
> >
> > www.johnbrewerphotography.com
> >
> > Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anaïs Nin.
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