Re: kallytype

Are you sure you can't buy tartaric acid at your grocery store? I seem to
remember using it in the kitchen in the distant past.....little boxes, maybe
50gr at a time.....I'll check next time I'm in there :)
Kate
----- Original Message -----
From: "Loris Medici" <loris_medici@yahoo.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 10:40 AM
Subject: RE: kallytype

> Ok, if that's tetenal gold toner then you're not
> supposed to dilute the toner that much (1+249!!!) but
> use it straight (in the other hand, I know there are
> people using it diluted 1+9 with success - but "one
> shot").
>
> I mixed mine spending less than 1/2 price of Tetenal's
> toner (and I have a lifetime supply of thiourea and
> tartaric acid now - couldn't purchase these by amounts
> less than a kg - so the next time I mix toner the cost
> will be less than 1/6 price of Tetenal's toner). Maybe
> you should check for better prices. I can buy gold
> chloride for $7.9/gr and one can make 2lt toner with
> 1gr gold chloride! (BTW, in my location, tartaric acid
> is $3.4/kg and thiourea is $9/kg - try to find local
> dealers with good prices).
>
> Regards,
> Loris.
>
>
> --- JUAN MIGUEL JUSDADO <jusdado@teleline.es> wrote:
> > Hello Loris, the Toner of Tetenal that I use for my
> > kallytypes is Gold
> > Toner, non Selenium.
> > Thank you for the link, but the chloride of gold is
> > very expensive and I
> > cannot allow myself to compose the formula of the
> > toner, I have to already
> > use a toner pre-blended as Gold Toner Tetenal.
>
>
>
Received on Thu Mar 11 14:36:55 2004