Precipitate in new bottle of T-Max fixer

henpe · Mar 17, 2019

I just discovered that a new and *unopened* bottle of 'Kodak T-Max' fixer have some precipitate at the walls at the bottom of the bottle. The precipitate is white, or perhaps yellowish. It doesnt seem to be any "goof" floating around in the fixer. The bottle is un-opened with the protective alumina-cap still on. The expiry-date stamped on the bottle says 2020-05. Stored in normal room temperature.
I have never seen this before. Is this normal?

Tom Kershaw · Mar 17, 2019

Um, I've seen this on old bottles of fixer but never on new, although I'm not familiar with the T-Max fixer specifically. I tend to use a standard rapid fixer with everything.

MattKing · Mar 17, 2019

I believe the T-Max fixer is the European packaging of what North American customers see as Kodafix liquid fixer.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...64080_Kodafix_Solution_Liquid_for.html?sts=pi
I wonder if that bottle was exposed to extreme temperatures on the way to the store.

Photo Engineer · Mar 17, 2019

The fixer is bad. If newly purchased or within the expiration date, return it.

PE

henpe · Mar 21, 2019

A follow-up:

I was in my local store today in order to buy a new bottle of fixer - same brand as before. It turned out that *all* bottles in their stock had the same "coating"/precipitate as mentioned in my original post. Moreover, the shop's assistant told me they unpacked the bottles as of today. This shop I was in today is *not* from where I purchased the bottle in my original post, so it seems like a somewhat widespread phenomenon....strange I must say.

Precipitate in new bottle of T-Max fixer

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