Where to buy metol, sodium sulfite locally

[BetterSense]

I was thinking of mixing up D23 and need metol and sodium sulfite. I know I can order these chemicals on the internet from B&H or Freestyle but I was wondering if there was some other application for these chemicals such that I could buy some locally, perhaps cheaper.

 

[Matthew Gorringe]

Not local (but not sure where you are); The Photographer's Formulary are a good source of everything and deserve support for making hard to get chemicals available.

 

[BetterSense]

I live in Dallas.

 

[tim_bessell]

What Matt said.
Save your self the trip and maybe the tax, order from the Formulary. Probably have it at your door step in a day or two. What could be easier than that.

 

[jim appleyard]

Also here:http://www.artcraftchemicals.com/

You can shop locally, but it will be a rare find if some local camera store actually has these on the shelf.

 

[dpurdy]

I buy sodium sulfite from a swimming pool supply place but it comes in 50 pound bags. Metol I have bought at a regular chemical supply house locally but they had to order it which took longer than my ordering it from Photo formulary. The local photo supply place here in Portland stocks it.

 

[dancqu]

The Photographer's Formulary are a good source of
everything and deserve support for making hard to
get chemicals available.

Beginner or Pro, straight forward or complex B&W
or color, the Formulary likely has what is needed.
And in SMALL as well as large quantity. Dan

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Edwal sells sulfite, but it might not be so easy to find except at places like B&H, since I think the main use would have been for clearing Polaroid Type 55 (other uses being, as a developer additive or as a wash aid). You can also find sulfite from swimming pool companies and www.chemistrystore.com in larger quantities. Metol is mainly a photographic chemical, so it's not as easy to find from non-photographic suppliers. I usually order from Artcraft or Photographer's Formulary, and occasionally from Bostick-Sullivan and mostlymetals.com.

 

[eclarke]

I have a wonderful lab chemical supply here in Milwaukee but the prices on technical grade chenicals are higher than you will pay at Formulary with shipping. Also try Digital Truth, great packaging and good service. Boths places are wonderful suppliers so compare...Evan Clarke

 

[CBG]

Try:

Photographers Formulary Inc
PO Box 950, Condon, MT 59826
Tel: +1 406 754-2891 or (800) 922 5255 - within U.S.A only
formulary@montana.com
www.photoformulary.com


Artcraft chemicals Inc.
1-800-682-1730.
www.artcraftchemicals.com
PO Box 583, Schenectady, NY 12301
Tel: (800) 682 1730


The Chemistry Store
www.chemistrystore.com
The Chemistry Store.com
1133 Walter Price St
Cayce, SC 29033
800-224-1430


Tech Chem
www.techcheminc.com


Digital Truth
www.digitaltruth.com/store/cart/Raw-Chemicals-p-1-c-33.html


Bostick & Sullivan Inc
www.bostick-sullivan.com
PO Box 16639, Santa Fe, NM 87506-6639
Tel: +1 505 474 0890
Fax: +1 505 474 2857

 

[wogster]

Also here:http://www.artcraftchemicals.com/

You can shop locally, but it will be a rare find if some local camera store actually has these on the shelf.

You do realise that almost no chemicals used in photography are exclusively used in photography, the exception may be the colour developers. Most are also used for other things, so a chemical supply house can be good for most of them.

 

[jim appleyard]

Yes indeed, but my first thought just happened to be of a camera store as most (?) towns/cities would have some kind of camera store (no matter how small) rather than a chemical supply house.

 

[wogster]

Yes indeed, but my first thought just happened to be of a camera store as most (?) towns/cities would have some kind of camera store (no matter how small) rather than a chemical supply house.

You would be surprised how small a place has a chemical supply house, although sometimes they are disguised as something else. Many small places that had serious enough camera stores to carry processing chemistry even 19 years ago, now simply have another store with a "for rent" sign out front. Camera stores used to make a lot on processing, now that every little place has a mini-lab and digital has kicked the stuffing out of the consumer film market, a lot of the camera stores have closed up. You have about as much chance of getting developer at Blacks or Japan Camera as you do finding a new Linhof in stock.