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Old June 29th 09, 09:14 PM posted to rec.photo.darkroom
Richard Knoppow
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Default Bad E-6 5L kits circulating?


"Thor Lancelot Simon" wrote in message
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I think -- after very carefully *not* ordering another 5L
E-6 kit
from Adorama since the last one they sent me was short
dated (only
4 months left on the concentrate shelf life when it
arrived) -- I
just got a bad 5L E-6 kit from B&H.

I can't be sure, since I mix partial kits, keeping the
concentrates
out of vacuum and drawing them from the bottles with clean
syringes.
This isn't, of course, the Kodak Approved procedure and I
am pretty
sure that consequently, Kodak won't be too eager to help
me. But
the first run of film I did in this kit, about a month
ago, was
fine -- and generally I can keep a kit for well over a
year using
this procedure, if I have to, with no problem with the
developed
film. Today's tanks of film (sadly I ran two at once)
showed all
the signs of exhausted first developer. There was a good
strong
vacuum when I opened the bottles, so that's not it -- and
it was
not particularly hot where they were stored, either, and I
know
I got the mixtures right and times/temps were correct.

I wonder when the last time Kodak made the 5L E6 kits was.
Has
anyone else received a bad one lately? With bad results
from
both B&H and Adorama I'm not even sure where to turn for a
new
one.

--
Thor Lancelot Simon

"Even experienced UNIX users occasionally enter rm *.*
at the UNIX
prompt only to realize too late that they have removed
the wrong
segment of the directory structure." - Microsoft WSS
whitepaper


Have you tried Freestyle? They seem to be quite
reliable. I have the advantage that they are only a short
drive from my home but they seem to have a very good mail
order reputation.



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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA