Alternatives to PEC and isopropyl alcohol for cleaning negs

Stop bath, vinegar, same thing. Salad dressing. I don't like the idea of all the added water anywhere around film emulsion.

crumpet8 said:

Bought some gloves and found the isopropanol at an electronic store today! Thanks for the help everyone and haha yep, I've been trying to keep my grubby hands off the negs... I think I'm going to try johnny walkers concoction on a microfibre cloth and see how that goes. Would like to avoid dunking the negs and drying them again if possible. My sleeves finally arrived in the mail today as well!

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Sorry to have missed your earlier question.
I use the mixture after the 10 minute wash in running tap water, in Paterson tubes - empty the water then add the alcohol/distilled water/photoflo mix (to the tube's capacity) with no drying in between. I shake the negatives in the mixture for about a minute, shake the negatives in the Paterson holders to get rid of loose moisture, then hang them up to dry in a drying cabinet (which is simply a cabinet with a filtered fan on the bottom with a hole in the top of the cabinet to let the air escape).

No worries, I was doing it on old negs that I'm now printing but washed them for a few minutes in your solution and it all came out good thanks again!