i just heard a story about a towns / city where it turns out the police department is sometimes strapped for cash and sell the guns to townsfolk as a fund raiser event. not sure how prevalent that is, if it is one town/city but i am guessingWe also have firearm events where they are not only turned in with no repercussions... but traded for grocery store gift cards. Those, we are told, get crushed and the metal recycled.
Glad too - and thanks for clarifying the issue about concrete toxic characteristics of lab chems.I'm glad there are so many expert chemists here that can tell me how toxic a given chemical is. One such expert has claimed that EDTA is very toxic, but it is injected as a counter to heavy metal poisoning. It and the metal are safely eliminated from the body. Also, Hypo is used as an antidote for Cyanide poisoning. And yet, dumping it down the drain is forbidden? Well, hair dye is really akin to a Kodachrome developer. There is a CD4 analog and a Magenta coupler analog in there to dye hair for a red-brown look. Drain cleaners are strong chemicals. Some are pure Sulfuric Acid and some are strong alkali or contain Phosphates.
Dumping down a drain is at the "whim" of the locale in which you live. My usage at its peak was so small, I doubt that anyone could even detect any effluent, but the rules here are not really that strong. The Kodak effluent was another matter. The effluent contained significant Silver ion and Cadmium ion, with the latter being far worse than the former. Kodak eliminated most all of that in the late '60s.
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i just heard a story about a towns / city where it turns out the police department is sometimes strapped for cash and sell the guns to townsfolk as a fund raiser event. not sure how prevalent that is, if it is one town/city but i am guessing
maybe if it happens one place, it happens others too.
I remind that (the problem with fixer) from years ago . Well and indeed it is no problem to handle fixer environmentaly correct. [stored in canisters] If it make sense with every simple bw developer ( If you want this you should handle gallons of wash the same way) should better not be discused - because no one would have shields on his car : " I DRINK AND DRIVE"The biggest problem is from the silver in the bleach & fix & its potent biocidal nature. You really don't want that getting into water treatment plants in industrial quantities.
You're at far more risk to yourself if you dabble in wet plate (many formulae are laden with cadmium salts etc) or any dichromated colloid based process without appropriate protective equipment - and as for washing dichromates down the drain... Traditional BW reversal uses acidified dichromate bleaches, but even that can be worked around and ECN-2 uses sulphuric acid at a pH of 2 as a stop bath, but that's a process intended for industrial process machinery, not amateur home users.
Yeah - what is a Leica ? Cholentpot pls. tell us : Do you own a M16 or a M14 ?These things are the best! The offer $125-$200 for any firearm no questions asked! Buy a box of rusty old Mosins from WWII at $50 a piece and make bank!
Another thing we...ehem I mean some people...do is buy the firearms before people turn them in. Offer twice as much for a historical piece that's going to be turned into slag because the owner has no clue what it's worth. Not that I've ever done this, nope nope nope.
Kinda like sorting through a recycle bin and finding gems of a camera because someone thought 'eh film, worthless camera. What's a Leica?
That kind of cherry-picking would not surprise me at all.i just heard a story about a towns / city where it turns out the police department is sometimes strapped for cash and sell the guns to townsfolk as a fund raiser event. not sure how prevalent that is, if it is one town/city but i am guessing
maybe if it happens one place, it happens others too.
Yeah - what is a Leica ? Cholentpot pls. tell us : Do you own a M16 or a M14 ?
with regards
PS : Why asking ? Well - from my point you are not so much the classic M14 type but more related to M16 I just would imagine.
PPS : And a M60 seams to be not allowed in your state - right ?....
For $25k+ I can own any of those.
Fine - but then you just can afford some "New Ektachromes" right.
with regards
PS : And don't tell us : " I've no need to this films because I can use my M60 thisweekend. ......
Omaha-beach equipment. ...Just Uncle Morry's M1 with notches in the side.
Ok - not a real bad rifle. The wwII weapons I personaly own (just in case of interest) are mostly from britisch infantry support groups.I bought some of that stuff (like many others) at extreme cheap pricing years ago (during late 70th).But last month I ordered additional stuff via an special auction. Including the legendary LEE ENFIELD No.4 MK I rifle. AND (you will not belive) 2 Vikers MK I machine gun in absolute top condition.
Also an ORDONANCE ML 4.2in MkI MORTAR was included - the price I can't tell (10 - 15 / up to 20 times more as well known from the 70th)
I have made a picture but seams to be little off topic to post this here.But at last "exzellent conditioned" and more than rare today......
with regards
If we keep this going the ModGods will hammer us down.
I'd love to shoot a few frames off with a Vickers. Maybe bulk-load some high sensitivity canisters and take a few snapshots.
Ok - not a real bad rifle. The wwII weapons I personaly own (just in case of interest) are mostly from britisch infantry support groups.I bought some of that stuff (like many others) at extreme cheap pricing years ago (during late 70th).But last month I ordered additional stuff via an special auction. Including the legendary LEE ENFIELD No.4 MK I rifle. AND (you will not belive) 2 Vikers MK I machine gun in absolute top condition.
Also an ORDONANCE ML 4.2in MkI MORTAR was included - the price I can't tell (10 - 15 / up to 20 times more as well known from the 70th)
I have made a picture but seams to be little off topic to post this here.But at last "exzellent conditioned" and more than rare today......
with regards
...resources Kodak has lost. It is staggering to consider how they once had over 100,000 people, ALL working on film, to what they are today: 6,000 people, with the vast majority NOT working on film.
I feel like that every day!Imagine doing your job with 97% less resources.
Today is the anniversary of D-Day ... for those that remember what that was.
So... where were we? Oh, yes: Ektachrome. Any news?
Way to go, Ron!! What a great post and straight to the point. It's amazing how fear, uncertainty and doubt can mislead people.
So glad we have here an actual PE like you.
For those interested, if I wish to direct something to or at someone, I use a name or send a PM! For some, who are sensitive to certain subjects, they have a reaction to a post that "seems" to be pointed in their direction.
if you have a problem with the MSDS you should take it up with the people who make the MSDS, and ask them if the shoe fits.
Most MSDS just say "comply with all federal and local regulations" (which is fine as far as it goes and they should not be giving legal advice anyway) but OTOH that does not give much input as to deciding if whatever you have needs general disposal, the folks in the Haz-Mat Suits or something more.
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