[alt-photo] Re: Alt-photo-process-list Digest, Vol 81, Issue 2

[colin at colinflanarygraham.com]

Or you could just get new PET plastic amber bottles for 68 cent each-
http://www.specialtybottle.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=370.
The glass ones are only 86 cents each-
http://www.specialtybottle.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=22. 

On Wed Mar  3 20:52 , Judy Seigel <jseigel at panix.com> sent:


>Theoretically, I suppose a plastic bottle could have imbibed some of 
>something it held previously.... even a new plastic bottle could 
>(perhaps??) absorb chemicals from its contents, or if not, maybe the 
>receptivity would change as the bottle aged.  Which may all be a 
>rationalization of my somehow feeling safer with glass:  I figure there 
>are so many variables I can't control (whatsisname used to claim what 
>color his shirt was that day... or like that ... was a variable), but I 
>anyway mention in passing that clear glass bottles are everywhere and 
>easily opacified with black paper or foil, or your cut up raincoat or 
>whatever can be wrapped around them.
>
>Years ago I used to get brown glass bottles at good prices from Ginsberg 
>Scientific... tho I realize many of those great mail order sources are 
>gone with the snows of yesteryear.... My favorite from them was brown 
>glass DROPPER bottles in all sizes.  (Small amounts of solution keep 
>better in a smaller container... less air exposure per cell presumably. 
>True, I haven't tested that assumption, but still, less evaporation.) 
>Anyway, for small quantities, droppers are easiest, and no washing up 
>or spills.
>
>Judy
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