Re: Dichromate/Palladium

Beakman (beakman@netcom.com)
Wed, 9 Oct 1996 05:42:35 -0700 (PDT)

>
> Been thinking about using dichromate in pot. ox. developer for pt/pl prints
> and can find no info as to replenishment as it relate to time and use. After
> searching the archives and various books....to no avail I thought that
> someone might have some experience with this. I have a feeling that as with
> h2o2 the replenishment is not a very exact science. Any thoughts?
> Thanks in advance

I haven't had to ever replenish the dichromate. Some solutions are over
a year old. But to be truthful, I haven't conducted rigorous scientific
experiments. The dichromate is certainly much longer lived than H2O2 in
any case.

David