Storing dektol

[mehguy]

I normally store my chemicals in a dark and cool room. There is very little light that gets in to the room. I'm switching from Polymax T to Dektol and I'm wondering, would normal mason jars be alright for storing it?

 

[bdial]

Most chemicals for silver processes aren't bothered by light, including your Dektol, especially if the room is darkened anyway.
It will be fine in clear jars.

 

[darkroommike]

I use San Ji soy sauce bottles for Dektol with a bit of Saran wrap under the cap. Cleaning the darkroom the other day I found a bottle from 2000, the "sauce" in this bottle is still clear (with a bit of precip. in the bottom of the bottle). These bottles have nice long necks, when filled to within a centimeter or so of the top, there is very little air in the bottle to promote oxidation. I opened one a few years ago, the plastic wrap had a small indentation which I surmise meant the bottle was sealed and the sulfite had scavenged the oxygen in the head space at the top of the bottle and the seal was good enough that a slight negative pressure caused the dent in the plastic seal. It was still good.

 

[Ronald Moravec]

Glass bottles with good lids or caps. The food wrap is good because photo chems destroy cap liners of some food bottles.

 

[Bill Burk]

I store my Dektol in blue plastic quart bottles... I let my kids come up with the labels...