Notes of this emulsion
A
100 ml deionized water
NaBr 11,41 g (=0,1109 mol)
KI 0,60 g
Gelatine (as discussed before) 2,50 g
Erythrosine 150 mg/mol of silver -> 11,475 mg, or 1,15 ml as 1% wt/wt solution
B
40 ml deionized water
Silver nitrate (self-made) 13,00 g (=0,0765 mol)
25% Ammonium Hydroxide added at 42 deg C. Solution cleared at 12 ml.
Filtered B with 5 um filter paper. There was quite a lot of precipitate/gunk not visible in the solution but well visible in the filter paper, probably due to home-made silver nitrate.
A heated to 42 deg C and stirred with magnetic stirrer at 1000 RPM.
Silver nitrate solution put into two syringes; 1 ml and 50 ml. Tempered them to 42C in water bath.
Addition with syringes, stirring at 1000 RPM all the time.
2% (1 ml) of B added in 5 seconds
waiting for 45 seconds
49% (~25 ml) added in 3'20"
waiting for 8 minutes
49% (~25 ml) added in 4'00"
waiting for 10 minutes
added 1.0 g gelatin (as I remembered PE saying that extra gelatin during digestion might prevent fog!)
waiting for 5 minutes
This was the addition sequence I planned, HOWEVER it wasn't so easy to inject at constant speed in the dark. I had timers for additions so the timing was exact, but the addition rates (injection speeds) were something like this:
Stirred in room temperature water bath for 3-5 minutes, to cool down a bit, and then put to lighttight container for two hours at room temp.
Room temp was 25,5 deg C.
After two hours, temperature back to 42 with constant stirring on magnetic stirrer. Added 15 g gelatin. Neutralized ammonium hydroxide with battery acid (H2SO4). Destination pH was 6.0 but we got 5.6. Didn't want to mess around with that anymore so we decided it's ok. I didn't write down the exact amount of acid needed but it was around 6 ml.
Chilled with cool water bath and put in the fridge until gelled.
Pushed into noodles using an "innovative garlic press" like in this picture:
Dead Link Removed. Dropped the noodles in Jobo tank filled with 4 deg C deionized water. Put the Jobo tank in water bath with ice cubes. First two or three water changes quite quickly, then standing for longer, agitating gently. Temperature was 3...5 deg C all the time. Kept the water in the fridge.
It was maybe after 30 minutes we decided to take a conductivity reading of the wash water for the first time. This wash water was in tank for 10 minutes. It has to soak in the tank with noodles for long enough so that the salt concentrations in emulsion and in wash water get near equilibirium so that the reading of water should be quite near of the concentration in noodles. Anyway, our meter showed 600 kOhm, whereas it shows 800 kOhm for deionized water, 400 kOhm for 0,030 g/l NaBr and 200 kOhm for 0,200 g/l NaBr. At this point we were surprised it washed so quickly and continued washing with 0,100 g/l NaBr water for 10 or 20 minutes.
Then, drained the water from the noodles and dried them to microfiber cloth (that was washed well with water and then deionized water). Put the noodles in fridge.
First coating:
25 ml of emulsion
5 drops Agepon
0,15 g sorbitol
0,5 ml glyoxal
Blade gap: 150 um
Dried for a day
Complete clearing time in fixer: 120 seconds
Developer: XTOL 1+1
Temperature: 24 deg C
Optimal dev time: around 4...5 minutes
Dmin: Good+
Dmax: Quite good
ISO compared to Agfa APX 100 in XTOL1+1 for 7 min at 24C: 25
Usable logH range: about 8 f/stops.
Coating flaked off from the base - this was acetate, so our subbing went somehow wrong this time.
Then, next coating with corona discharged PET. The results are in the first post.
Hope this helps!
. Although there would be possibilities for computer automation, but I already have a subject for my MSc that relates to my (paid) work at the department, design of the integrated circuits. My BSc thesis was about the Motion Picture laboratory (pdf is in Finnish but has an English abstract) I'm building but it seems that lab will take some more years to complete 
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