PhotonTom@aol.com
Date: 09/17/02-09:34:41 PM Z
In a message dated 9/17/2002 8:22:05 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
watsok@frii.com writes:
> Nitric acid in the developer is crazy.... I need to try this sometime;<) I
> would agree about dangerous chemistry if this was required. Most wet heads
> use acetic acid, about 14 ml to 500 ml of water. This is about the same
> strength as household vinegar.
> I know some literature calls for Potassium Cyanide as a fixer. This is an
> option as Hypo works well.
>
For God's sake (as well as your own!!) Don't use KCN as a fixer if you have
acid around, unless you want to play "gas chamber" and off yourself. (I
suspect it may be difficult to purchase the cyanide in most forms in any
case.)
Cheers,
Tom Crowe
Thomas Crowe Studios-Photographic Arts
"Lost in East Tennessee" (Yearning to return to Southern California
again)
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