Andrew O'Neill
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It's really hard to beat Pyrocat-HD. I've been using it for over 20 years. I prefer using water to mix it up instead of glycol, because I go through it quickly, defeating the purpose, and getting glycol up here isn't cheap.
It's really hard to beat Pyrocat-HD. I've been using it for over 20 years. I prefer using water to mix it up instead of glycol, because I go through it quickly, defeating the purpose, and getting glycol up here isn't cheap.Some years back I tried a version of Pyro from Photo Formulary, but was put off by the toxic aspects and that was probably a good thing at the time as my chem handling and experience really needed to just nail the basics. Feel like I've got that one down largely by focusing on ID-11 and then D23... and more recently Karl's PC-512 as a sort of better keeping XTOL or HC-110 (your choice).
So now wanting to crush grain more directly without suffering a huge speed hit, I'm back looking at pyros. Feel I could do so and keep it m-a-n-a-g-a-b-l-y safe by sticking to 1) pre-mixed liquids and if possible, 2) avoiding the hyper thick syrups to enable easy measurement and dilution.
Current EXTENSIVE buzz about 510-Pyro aside, I'd read that John Finch's tends to go for the Barry Thornton vesions.... but I'm wondering whether in fact the easy-peasy, crowd favorite might instead by Sandy King's Pyrocat HD in glycol.
Am I on the right track with this line of thinking?
I hadn't seen this. Can I ask when he published this and how I find it? If you have a link to it that would be great. I am a little surprised that if these three "commercial" developers which he used to sell from his online "shop",are his favourite that he hasn't done a video on them to compare the results with his previous "best" which as I understood it from his comparison videos was Pyrocat HD by a very short head
Thanks
pentaxuser
It's really hard to beat Pyrocat-HD. I've been using it for over 20 years. I prefer using water to mix it up instead of glycol, because I go through it quickly, defeating the purpose, and getting glycol up here isn't cheap.
If for instance Prescysol EF is still available then I wonder from where and at what price? I can't see it anywhere. As far as I know it was Peter Hogan's own "concoction" and seemed to disappear altogether for a period of years when as I understood it, Peter Hogan had moved on to another business connected with property.
pentaxuser
...and don't forget about Obsidian Aqua. Razor sharp.
Sharper then Pyrocat-HD?
I'd' heard that, too. I think Photo Formulary carries all of these.
Ít's about 18 miles from Coventry. I have no idea why or who chose the abbreviation of No. Maybe the way such info has to be abbreviated on Photrio there was no choice other than No but No are the first two letters of Northants which in turn is a shortened version of Northamptonshirepentaxuser: I wondered. Daventry -by Medieval logic- ought to be next door or just down the road from Coventry.
Ít's about 18 miles from Coventry. I have no idea why or who chose the abbreviation of No. Maybe the way such info has to be abbreviated on Photrio there was no choice other than No but No are the first two letters of Northants which in turn is a shortened version of Northamptonshire
There is no two letter abbreviation that can be used that completely distinguishes it from other U.K. areas with a similar two letter beginning such as Norfolk where Norwich is a city
pentaxuser
Isn't the English language beautiful in its complexity? Especially in England... where as newby visitors a few years back, my wife and I were puzzled by announced stations on the destination list at the train statiion. Spelling and pronunciation were NOTHING close to what an American would expect. I'd imagine the same would hold in reverse on visiting Oxford.... that's as in Missippi where sideways isn't just a direction.
switched only because it lasts indefinately
; it will go bad on you toward the end of the container
Funny no one has mentioned John Wimberley's W2D2
he was using it way before anyone and the resurgence of Pyro developers
I used it for several years until Pyro cat came along and switched only because it lasts indefinately
One mention about the stuff from Formulary; it will go bad on you toward the end of the container so be cautious and decant into smaller glass bottles.
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