Effective solvent for Blix sludge

Apparently I was in a discussion in a Flickr group ("I Shoot Film"). There I recorded trying to emulate someone else who had used 1+9 dilution of CD, and got a colour cast and surge marks round me sprocket 'oles ('urts, that do!) Then moved to 1+5 and rotary - twizzle stick - agitation and got the result above. Blix was 6.5 minutes at room temp, agitation not recorded. Here's another from the same film:

Decent greens in there. I noted at the time, "The negatives look a bit more like a normally developed film, but on scanning they still have a strong purple tint rather than the usual blue [Ed: must be talking about initial inversion in FlexColor using the Flextight X1. Changed over to the Nikon 9000 for raw scans.]. Raw scans and inversion in ColorPerfect gets the colours just about spot on. Only very slight tweaks to colour temperature and tint were needed."
I went back to 100º/39º development because it was just a bit quicker, even allowing for the time taken to heat my solutions. One thing to note though - a presskit nominally develops six films with its 1000ml solutions. A Paterson tank takes 300ml for 35mm or 120 film. 1+5 dilution uses 50ml of CD per film, which allows for one presskit to develop 20 films!

drmoss_ca said:

I know jaundice when I see it! And what I see there isn't jaundice (sorry, Matt!), but an incorrectly developed photograph.

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I think I may have actually suggested that .
It is both a blessing and a curse to be specially attuned to/bothered by crossover issues. The "jaundice and light blue stain" observation merely describes the observation in (slightly) exaggerated terms, to help people understand what I was talking about.

MattKing said:

I think I may have actually suggested that .

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Understood!