Crystals formed in Beutler's High Actuance Developer

[mcfactor]

I mixed up a batch of Beutler's the other night (from scratch), everything seemed fine, it mixed with no issues and the solutions seemed fine. When I looked at it last night (after 24 hours), there was a think layer of crystals at the bottom of solution A. Does anyone know what happened?

My guess is that the solution cooled too quickly (they were in glass bottles on a cold tile floor) and crystals formed. But it was not frozen, the bottle was room temperture to the touch. Is this possible? If so, is it the metol or the sodium sulfate?

Most importantly, can it be fixed? I havent tried to mix up the solution, but assuming I can get the crystals to disolve, would the developer still work?

Thanks,

Noah

 

[Ian Grant]

It's likely it was too cold, just warm slightly it should re-dissolve the crystals, it's possible though that they weren't dissolved in the dirts place just in suspension.

Should be fine once every-things dissolved

Ian

 

[dpurdy]

I think Ian is right, I have mixed a lot of beutlers and I don't think you ever come close to saturated solution. So if heating the developer up and giving it a shake doesn't fix it, then I would question the water.
Dennis

 

[mcfactor]

Cool, thanks. I have mixed up numerous batches of beutlers in my apt (with the same water) and they have been fine, so its probably just a temp thing.

 

[mcfactor]

Ok, so turns out that I am an idiot. I put in 5 times the amount of metol I was supposed to! Yes, 50g instead of 10g. Thats what I get for mixing chemicals late at night after working all day.

While I'm doing the confession thing, I also developed 3 sheets of unexposed Velvia 50 with 1 sheet of Hp5 because I had them in the same box and did not check the notch codes. It was somewhat costly, but not nearly as bad as ruining exposed film.

I remixed the developer last night and processed the 7 other sheets of Hp5 sucessfully!