Ansco 130 user experience, questions, comments, appreciation...

[chuckroast]

Forever.

Incidentally, Ansco 130 will develop your paper even if the glycin is dead when you mix it. It is essentially dektol with glycin and more bromide added.

I've added glycin to homemade dektol lots of times. It makes it last longer. And it makes the development slow down at the normal "done" point but actually keep going in the midtones without just fogging the paper. So, you can leave the paper in for 3 or 4 extra minutes and see some difference that might be an improvement.

In what proportion have you added glycin to dektol?

 

[john_s]

Does anyone know what the reasonably expected Benzotriazole stock shelf life might be? I have some ancient Zone VI bottles here that are likely 25+ years on the shelf.

Benzotriazole is a permanent addition to recirculating water boiler systems (as an anticorrosive) so I think it is quite a durable compound!

 

[chuckroast]

Benzotriazole is a permanent addition to recirculating water boiler systems (as an anticorrosive) so I think it is quite a durable compound!

But that is a closed system with very little air in it.


I wonder if there is a way to test my old bottles.

 

[Patrick Robert James]

PRJ... i didn't quite understand the last sentence. What connection are you making between Ansco/PF 130 and Edwal? Thank you.

The Edwal film developers (Edwal 10,12) use Glycin but since I don't use those anymore I stopped buying Glycin so I don't use 130 anymore either.

 

[GregY]

The Edwal film developers (Edwal 10,12) use Glycin but since I don't use those anymore I stopped buying Glycin so I don't use 130 anymore either.

Thank you PRJ

 

[Don_ih]

In what proportion have you added glycin to dektol?

Somewhere around a spoonful to a litre of stock. I don't think I ever weighed it.

Test your benzo by adding some to working-strength paper developer and see if it does what it should.