Hi All,
Before reading this, I know the obvious answer is, "Well... try it", but I'm wondering if anyone has already experienced this and can give me a few tips and some hope:
Several years ago I received some Pyrocat MC with Glycol from Photographers Formulary and promptly put it away under the darkroom sink (where it's cool and dark), to test the following weekend. As this region of my darkroom is known as "The Bermuda Triangle Corner", the stuff was never to be seen again. True to form, I'd forgotten about it until last week when I noticed some blackish-brown crud on the floor around those bottles. It turned out that the bottles of solution "A" were leaking at the bottom (I guess the plastic had cracked over time). I donned my hazardous waste garb and duly cleaned it up, and then re-bottled the remaining liquid in better bottles. Now I'm eager to (finally) use it up or dump it (responsibly .... in the Seine). (Yes, I'm joking).
To my mind the "B" solution is probably still OK because there's not much in it to oxidize. My question to you, oh wise multitude, is: Do you think the "A" juice is still good? I suspect —I mean, I'm hopeful— that because the "A" and "B" solutions were never mixed together, there may be a chance that the developer may still be viable. Hopefully I'll end up developing a successful test roll and screaming, like Dr. Frankenstein, "It lives! It lives!"
Thanks for any insights you can provide, y'all.
Before reading this, I know the obvious answer is, "Well... try it", but I'm wondering if anyone has already experienced this and can give me a few tips and some hope:
Several years ago I received some Pyrocat MC with Glycol from Photographers Formulary and promptly put it away under the darkroom sink (where it's cool and dark), to test the following weekend. As this region of my darkroom is known as "The Bermuda Triangle Corner", the stuff was never to be seen again. True to form, I'd forgotten about it until last week when I noticed some blackish-brown crud on the floor around those bottles. It turned out that the bottles of solution "A" were leaking at the bottom (I guess the plastic had cracked over time). I donned my hazardous waste garb and duly cleaned it up, and then re-bottled the remaining liquid in better bottles. Now I'm eager to (finally) use it up or dump it (responsibly .... in the Seine). (Yes, I'm joking).
To my mind the "B" solution is probably still OK because there's not much in it to oxidize. My question to you, oh wise multitude, is: Do you think the "A" juice is still good? I suspect —I mean, I'm hopeful— that because the "A" and "B" solutions were never mixed together, there may be a chance that the developer may still be viable. Hopefully I'll end up developing a successful test roll and screaming, like Dr. Frankenstein, "It lives! It lives!"
Thanks for any insights you can provide, y'all.