you remember that too?
it was alike a bad spy novel ... that took like 2 years !
from what i understand from people who
regularly do work with factories &c over there
is you have to have someone on the ground over there who you trust
who does quality control, to assure you that what you are getting
is what you paid for, and it isn't just the sample that is what you paid for ...
ansco 130 with phenione? does the phenidone take the place of the metol gram for gram ?
sorry to ask the secrets of your recipe ...
Its been years since I used it because I used it primarily on Polywarmtone. I was trying to duplicate the results of BW-65, which PF touts as being very close to amidol. It gave a beautiful warm but not green tone on Polywarmtone. But BW-65 is 2-part and only lasts a few hours once mixed. My mixture was one part and lasted forever like Ansco 130. It also gave results indistinguishable from BW-65, to my eye.
I actually used ID-62 as the starting point and added glycin to that, and tweaked restrainers
> Ilford ID-62
> Water (at 125F)
750.0 ml
> Sodium Sulfite (anhydrous) 50.0 grams
> Hydroquinone 12.0 grams
> Sodium Carbonate (anhydrous) 60.0 grams
> Phenidone 0.5 grams
> Potassium Bromide 2.0 grams
> Benzotriazole 0.5 grams
> Water to make 1.0 liter
> Dilute 1:2 for use.
So you might start with that and do your own tweaks to find what works for you
I think this is what I ended up using most:
> Water (at 125F)
750.0 ml
> Sodium Sulfite (anhydrous) 50.0 grams
> Hydroquinone 11.0 grams
> Sodium Carbonate (anhydrous) 70.0 grams
> glycin 11 grams
> Phenidone 0.25 grams
> Benzotriazole 0.2 grams
> Water to make 1.0 liter
> Dilute 1:1 for use.
I sometimes used the KbR and sometimes didn't.