Kodak Flexicolor Fixer?

1kgcoffee

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Hoping someone can help reverse engineer my poor labelling habits?

I have a couple bottles labelled "Flexicolor Fixer Concentrate". I cant find the documentation. Is the stock flexicolor solution diluted down into a concrentrate, which is then diluted down into a working solution or used as a replenisher? I need some fresh working solution fixer and left myself in a jam by not properly labelling.

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Donald Qualls

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koraks said:
Just dilute it 1+4 or so and call it good. It's basically just fixer, only buffered to pH6.5 or so.
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I agree. I've used it for both C-41 and black and white films for years -- what I have was cheaper than B&W rapid fixer concentrate and in my experience it has the same or better life in terms of rolls fixed per liter.
 

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Fuji sells a Universal fixer, 1+4 for C-41, 1+9 for E6. 1+4 is the right dilution for Flexicolor.
 

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I have bought a few canisters of Tetenal C-41 fixer replenisher concentrate a while back. It works well as fixer concentrate, but the resulting pH is a bit above 7, so it has some Ammonia smell until I add a few dashes of Acetic Acid.

These replenisher concentrates typically produce a slightly higher pH than 6.5, since fixer working solution gets contaminated with acidic bleach over time. There's a non-trivial chance, that your bottles of "Flexicolor fixer concentrate" also started their life as "Flexicolor fixer replenisher concentrates". If you notice some Ammonia smell, add some acid to bring pH down to neutral. Rapid fixers are very close to odorless when they have the right pH.
 
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