I seem to recall that you could put steel wool in used fixer, a magic REDOX reaction would occur and the silver would plate itself onto the steel.
I also remember that you didn't get enough out to make it worth the bother other than as a fun chem demo. -- Every medium suffers from its own particular handicap. Photography's greatest handicap is the ease with which the medium as such can be learned. As a result, too many budding neophytes learn to speak the language too long before they have anything to say." W. Connell 1949 Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
