RE: gold chloride?

Christine,

The "nukey235" ebay person is the same I bought from previously. Also,
back then he had more than was being auctioned at the moment. It is
currently at 57.00 for the three, so with three more dollars it's at
the same price I paid. I thought Bob K.'s idea was good too. If you
can wait, try Rick Clayton and then decide.

Also, if that old G.C. on ebay has been exposed to light, it probably
wasn't a great purchase. My understanding is that G.C. needs to stored
in dark bottles.

Darryl

-----Original Message-----
From: epona [mailto:acolyta@napc.com]
Sent: Tue 12/30/2003 10:56 AM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Cc: epona
Subject: Re: gold chloride?
 
Thanks Judy, and Darryl.

I couldn't get a human being on the phone at Engelhard. Waiting on a

call back from them. Spoke to a gentlemen at Goldsmith who quoted me

$110 per gram! When I told him I could get it for $40, he said "oh,

you probably spoke to one of our distributors." Yikes. I'm hoping he

was confused, because that's a ripoff. I ended up purchasing a gram
from Artcraft Chemicals (http://www.artcraftchemicals.com) in
Schenectady, NY for $30. The one gentleman that always seems to
answer the phone is friendly and prompt. I like supporting small
businesses. Will be keeping my eyes open on Ebay and if anyone else
notices a good deal, lemme know.

Thanks,
Christine

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On Dec 30, 2003, at 12:22 AM, Judy Seigel wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, epona wrote:
>> does anyone recommend a cheap source of gold chloride? the photo
>> formulary has it going for $39.95 a gram and that seems like a lot.
i
>> remember judy saying once there was a much more inexpensive
>> alternative.
>
> Last I heard Englehard in New Jersey (or possibly Goldsmith in
Evanston
> Il, or maybe both of them) was selling it for $8/gram, tho as i
recall
> there was some kind of minimum, possibly $100. It's been about 100
> years
> since I bought gold, so the details fade, but it's in P-F Sources
and
> Services under Precious Metals, tho I gather that nowadays browsers

> are so
> sophisticated they probaably take you right there.
>
> Or what about E-bay? Has anyone? I know a fellow who got silver
nitrate
> there, and someone else got uranium...
>
> Judy