I have always used amber glass because of the gradual hardening of plastic jugs over time. Clorox oxidizes just about everything. I don't know of another substance that would clean them up without affecting the plastic. If you invest in some 500ml amber glass bottles, you can get them squeaky clean, and can fill them up to the tippy top to eliminate the air.
One caveat about XTOL...when it goes bad, it doesn't look bad (doesn't get brown). If you develop with it after it has started going bad, you will get extremely thin negatives. I tried using Patterson ascorbic acid developer (the one formulated by the late Geoffrey Crawley). By the time it got from England to the US, it was dead. Kodak's HC110 is a reliable one-shot dilution from concentrate. You wouldn't have to fool around with jugs. It has many of the characteristics of D76. And for every combination of everything, look at www.digitaltruth.com and click on the massive development chart. Jeffery On Dec 9, 2010, at 12:20 PM, John Graves wrote: > jeffery, > > Xtol raises another question. I think I still have gallon brown plastic jugs > in the garage that I had used for storage of developer etc. during a previous > run at home processing. Assuming it has been more than 10 years since they > were touched, can you, or anyone, suggest a cleaning method that would make > them usable? > John Graves > WA1JG > [email protected] > > Jeffery Smith wrote: >> I hate Microdol as it is a grain-dissolving developer that robs you of >> sharpness. XTOL is probably as good as D76 and won't hurt your septic >> system. They don't sell the XTOL in small packets anymore, so you have to >> make a bunch. I love Prescysol for just about everything. You mix it and >> discard it (highly diluted). You can get it from Photographer's Formulary. >> Get a few syringes for measuring the concentrate. I also love PMK-pyro, >> another highly diluted one-shot developer, but you have to be pickier with >> films for that developer. >> Jeffery >> > > -- > 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. -- 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.
