Potassium Bromide pebbles

The regular lids are coated with some kind of plastic as some canned foods are acid. The lids can also be purchased separately and replaced annually.

Photo Engineer said:

Your Sulfite might not last quite a while though!

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Good point. Some of the smaller bottles are brown glass all are Kodak. Nice dry free flowing powder. I must be lucky. I have XTOL pouches that are pushing 10 years old, way past expiration date. Still works great. It's stored 68F to 60F year round. Total darkness except when I'm playing. I've got some 60 to 70 year old Kodak Athenon, original full brown glass bottles. Free flowing fine powder light tan. The glycin I bought from Eastman chemical in the early 80's is dark brown goop. Someday I'm going to try the Athenon.

My dream for time travel. Go back to the fall of 1945, go into a shop and buy a lifetime supply of all the Kodak "tested chemicals " in nice brown glass jars by the case. I might buy some Edwal stuff too. And all the neat thermometers and the famous combination funnel. I still use mine best funnel ever made.
Best Regards Mike

As a young person, I used to drool over those brown jars of Dektol and D76 in the drugstore. They had powder and a small cardboard container, a part A and B for us to mix. Lots of fun back then (if you could afford it), but we could not as we were just coming out of the war.

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Photo Engineer said:

As a young person, I used to drool over those brown jars of Dektol and D76 in the drugstore. They had powder and a small cardboard container, a part A and B for us to mix. Lots of fun back then (if you could afford it), but we could not as we were just coming out of the war.

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I can remember going into the local camera store and one whole wall had shelves with raw chemicals such as Mallinckrodt hydroquinone and all sorts of developers in cans. It was a fun time. I was 9 when my parents gave me a Kodak ABC Photo Lab Outfit. It contained EVERYTHING needed to develop film and make contact prints, Tri Chem Packs and little envelops of Azo and Velox paper. I still have two outfits bought off of ebay. One had never been opened and still had the packing material around things.