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Wanted to know if any one can recomend some place to buy Photo Chemistry such as Metol, Sodium Carbonate or Sodium Sulfite. I live in the Los Angeles area, would consider buying out of state and shipping if it was cost effective. Thanks ken

-- Kenneth Hedden (chaselucy@aol.com), April 30, 2001

Answers

www.photoformulary.com. Cheers, DJ.

-- N Dhananjay (ndhanu@umich.edu), April 30, 2001.

Ken:

Try www.artcraftchemicals.com and www.colba.net/~fotochem/index.htm

-- Ken Burns (kenburns@twave.net), April 30, 2001.


you can buy Sodium Carbonate at your grocery store in the form of washing soda. If its Arm and Hammer Soda, its the monohydrate. If another brand check with them to see which form it is. Much cheaper than buying it elsewhere. Some stores even carry sulfite. In fact just about every common photo chemical except the reducing agents (Metol, hydroquinone, glycin, phenidone etc) can be bought for much less than a photo supply house, if you shop around and are willing to buy in larger quantities

-- Wayne (wsteffen@skypoint.com), May 05, 2001.

Wayne, Maxim Muir states that Arm and Hammer Washing Soda is the decahydrated form, not the monohydrated, and that one should multiply the amount of monohydrate specified by 2.33 to arrive at correct amount of washing soda. Now I'm curious! I've been planning to try this cheaper product, but I need to resolve this issue first. Do you have some documentation, etc. I'd appreciate knowing.

And Ken, I believe that Samy's Camera (431 S. Fairfax, Av, LA 90036, Tel: 333 938 2420) stocks most common photochemicals. I have no idea how their prices compare, but they are in your area.

Regards, ;^D)

-- Doremus Scudder (ScudderLandreth@compuserve.com), May 06, 2001.


I was told several years ago that A&H soda was the ANHYDROUS form, and thats how I've been using it for at l;east 2 years! Last week I called A&H and asked them, and they told me it was monohydrate. It would not be a bad idea if someone else called them, or even several people (the number is on the box) because these days you never know how many different answers you might get.

I've never heard of decahydrate carbonate, but I'm also a chemistry flunker. Are you sure you arent thinking of 20 Mule Team borax, which is decahydrate?

-- Wayne (wsteffen@skypoint.com), May 06, 2001.



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