Re: formaldehyde
yeah i was stocking up for my husband's soon to be demise....heheheheheh as
mark would say.
Chris
ps really anyway i think the guy's name is tom something in colorado--url at
home.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Bryant" <dsbryant@bellsouth.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 11:05 PM
Subject: RE: formaldehyde
One of your embalmer friends perhaps ....
-----Original Message-----
From: Christina Z. Anderson [mailto:zphoto@montana.net]
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 11:59 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
Subject: Re: formaldehyde
I just got a bunch from a guy in Colorado....
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 10:53 PM
Subject: RE: formaldehyde
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Don Bryant wrote:
Judy,
FWIW, I was able to purchase a 1 liter bottle of Formalin (37%) from my
local pharmacist. As I was visiting there one day getting a prescription
filled I spied the bottle sitting on a back shelf. I asked if they would
sell it to me and they did so without hesitation. The pharmacy attendant
explained that it had been ordered in error and is normally a non stock
item
but they could get more if I wished. Less than $15 a few years ago as I
recall.
It used to be as easily bought as, say, rubbing alcohol, but then they
so-to-speak cracked down on it. But we heard (for instance) about
formaldehyde disappearing from supply closets in hospitals -- and, as
noted, the rumor developed that it was used to make some kind of
controlled substance. I could get it by prescription, which I did (and at
the time a smallish bottle was $12), but it was a large pain generally,
especially dragging everything outside, and the glyoxal (available by
mail
order) worked as well & usable right in the studio, so I got out of the
habit.
It seems however that Europe is more liberal in this respect than the
US -- maybe they have fewer criminals? (Or less uptight gov't, having
sent their puritans over here circa 1797).
J.
But as you say a very noxious product best used outside in warm weather.
Don Bryant
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