Free More weird stuff from my uncle’s

[Laroche]

Hi Everyone, and thanks again for all your help, feedback and insight. This forum has been really helpful.

I took some more photos and thought I’d share. Mostly, I’m wondering what this stuff is and what I should do with it. If consensus is that it’s free, I’ll send to to whoever is willing to pay for shipping. THAT SAID -and I apologize if this is against the “free stuff” forum guidelines- but if it turns out something has actual ‘value’, I’ll have to pull it from the free pile.

In an attempt to ease things, I’m going start with one pic per post, and have several follow-up posts with other stuff. Please reply to the specific post. Hopefully that makes sense.

First up, CHEMICALS! What do y’all think of this?

 

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[Laroche]

Second photo, what’s this? (Completely unopened).

 

[Laroche]

#3, cute but weird that they’re cute packets of chemicals! For darkrooms? Or for children?

 

[Laroche]

#4: including nasty packets of chemicals. Just throw them away or does someone want them?

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Second photo, what’s this? (Completely unopened).View attachment 256773

Blotter roll for drying fiber based prints.

 

[Laroche]

#5: a large completely unopened box of Kodak Ektamatic paper. Shipping label is from 1983

 

[Laroche]

#6 more Chemicals

 

[BradS]

Please do not throw any of this stuff in the trash. If you're going to dispose of it please take it to a household hazardous waste disposal site.

 

[Laroche]

#7: large unopened box of Sylvania flash bulbs.

 

[BradS]

holy shit! Yeah, the flash bulbs are definitely quite valuable.

The chemicals...not so much. I'd like the Microdol-X but it's not even worth the cost of shipping to me.

 

[Laroche]

holy shit! Yeah, the flash bulbs are definitely quite valuable.

The chemicals...not so much. I'd like the Microdol-X but it's not even worth the cost of shipping to me.

Thank you so much! That’s what I need to know. I’ll probably put this on ebay and then include the link here...??

 

[BradS]

Thank you so much! That’s what I need to know. I’ll probably put this on ebay and then include the link here...??

You need to be a subscriber to do this. Please pony up the small cost of subscribing...it is easy and you will more than recover the cost by selling even a small portion of the stuff you've shown.

 

[Laroche]

You need to be a subscriber to do this. Please pony up the small cost of subscribing...it is easy and you will more than recover the cost by selling even a small portion of the stuff you've shown.

Yeah, I agree. I’m looking into doing that right now...

 

[ProfessorC1983]

Are the "Gold Chloride" tins unopened and actually contain gold chloride? If so, might be some value there as well.

 

[TheGreatGasMaskMan]

I MIGHT be interested in some of the old developers for my next potential summer project, just let me have a few days to think it over.

 

[AgX]

Are the "Gold Chloride" tins unopened and actually contain gold chloride? If so, might be some value there as well.

Worth a small fortune.

 

[Donald Qualls]

Pretty much any chemical/mix in a can is likely to be still good if the can is good. D-76R is fairly hard to come by, Microdol-X Replenisher even more so. I didn't look at every photo, but flashbulbs old enough to come in a case like that go for several dollars per bulb last I checked. And yes, gold chloride is, well, gold chloride. It's pretty expensive stuff; photographically, it's used in gold toning prints (which doesn't make them gold colored, IIRC it gives a rather red tone, but it protects the image from oxidation and other chemical attacks). As previously suggested, none of this stuff should go in normal trash (except the blotter roll, it's just paper -- but someone is likely to want it, especially in unopened condition).

 

[Kodachromeguy]

I agree with Donald. Intact cans should have perfectly useable contents. Isn't D-19 the developer that many people use for Super-XX film? The Ansco developer is an old time product, but I recall their chemicals were well-regarded. I could not tell what was in the small packets, but they looked intact. Please don't discard in bulk.

(I bet that gent in Egypt would love these products if there was a practical way to ship them there.)

 

[MattKing]

What I find amusing about all this is how many of us here don't think that any of that stuff is weird!
Although I expect that that extremely large box of flashbulbs is, due to how many bulbs are likely to be in it, at least unusual.
To the OP generally: take a look around at the possessions you currently own and consider how many of them will seem "weird" to others 40 - 60 years from now.
At least some of us here are enjoying this thread, because it brings rise to memories of being able to visit our local store and buy so many of those items off the shelves.

 

[Donald Qualls]

At least some of us here are enjoying this thread, because it brings rise to memories of being able to visit our local store and buy so many of those items off the shelves.

Absolutely true. I'm a little older than most of the folks who are genuinely comfortable with computers (I got my first one just about the time DOS started to seriously beat out other systems -- CP/M was still a viable system just a couple years before), so I don't see old 4K RAM, cassette tape storage systems as "bizarre", but they're 35+ years old in an industry with a three-year obsolescence cycle. Likewise, I started doing this photography stuff (at a level above "You push the button, we'll do the rest.") literally half a century ago, and seeing those packets and cans and that specific color of yellow packaging makes me fondly remember the days when even a small town would have a shop that sold new and used cameras, film, (B&W) paper, and chemicals -- and I didn't know there was any other source of those things than the Great Yellow Father.

 

[runswithsizzers]

Glacial Acetic Acid in a Rainier Beer bottle? Danger, Will Robinson ...

 

[AgX]

It's odour already should be quite a deterrent.

 

[gordrob]

At least some of us here are enjoying this thread, because it brings rise to memories of being able to visit our local store and buy so many of those items off the shelves.

Actually Matt it is kind of a reflection of what I have in my darkroom. The scary part is what someone like the OP is going to have to deal with someday when I am gone.
Gord

 

[PFGS]

"Hi-Fi and Prep" brand developer is an awesome example of semi-meaningless midcentury marketing. Definitely more tempting than an root beer bottle of glacial acetic.

 

[summicron1]

Actually Matt it is kind of a reflection of what I have in my darkroom. The scary part is what someone like the OP is going to have to deal with someday when I am gone.
Gord

may one assume from the smiley face that you realize this and are taking steps vis a vis responsible disposal now?

I know I am.