Re: Aculux and D76 Logevity

[Geoff McAuliffe <mcauliff@xxxxxxxxx>]

George L Smyth wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Clive Warren wrote:
>
> > Well the D76 will be great for HIE and the Aculux for Konica film perhaps.
> > Does anyone know the shelf life of the developers as supplied by the
> > manufacturers?
> > Guess to determine the exact age of the stock will have to approach the
> > manufacturers.  We could be talking up to ten years :-)
>
> Of course, the right answer would be to tell you to test.  However,
> "generally speaking," powder keeps very well, and you may find that the
> D76 works just fine.  I don't know anything about the Aculux.
>
> george

My experience with powdered developers, D-19 in particular,  is that they DO
have a finite life span. I have had to discard lots of D-19 that was an ugly,
very dark brown on mixing. It was about 5-10 years old. Don't know about D-76
though.

Geoff
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