No selenium toner in Indiana!

It's a sad day, I need some selenium toner PRONTO! An the three biggest full service camera shops in Indiana no longer stock selenium toner. Purdue Chemistry stores does not have selenium sulfide so I can do a home brew.

Having a quart shipped in from Calumet in Chicago.

I have just about give up on camera stores here in Indiana

Be sure to heed all MSDS information if you are looking to make selenium toner from selenium sulfide.

It is finely dispersed powder, and has a very low LD-50.

I mix selenium powder under a fume hood (actually the inlet to the whole house heat recovery ventilator that draws at the fixer end of my darkroom sink), while wearing nitrile gloves, a lab coat and a a respirator with good filters.

The area get wiped down afterwards, and the lab coat and rags get their own trip though the washing machine right after I do this.

The up side is that the toner can last a very long time once mixed, and can be re-used to exhaustion.

After that I partially evaporate it to cut volume, and hand it in at my HHW depot.