Cleaning
I's assuming like every one else, I am searching round for those 'little' jobs that need doing but have kept putting them off. The bottle in which I store my working fixer for film development has accumulated quite a bit of black silver in the inside. What is the best way of cleaning it off. The bottle, made of thick plastic, was originally a 1 litre bottle of Amfix concentrate.
Oddly enough this does not happen with my bottles containing working paper fixer. Same type of bottles, but not the same problem I have tried soaking it for a couple of days with bleach (which clean up my developing trays perfectly well) and even resorted to using a bottle brush. Neither work very well on the bottle How can I dissolve the blackened silver off the insides. |
John I look forward to the answer as well. Intuitively, as the remnants are simply concentrate as opposed to working solution such that you have in a Nova slot. you'd imagine that more concentrated bleach should do the trick
I did notice that when I cleaned my Nova fixer slots recently ( I use the double slot method of fixing and the second slot which you'd expect to have a lesser deposit of fix in it actually took longer to shift. There was a silvery-grey layer on the bottom of the slot that literally took days to loosen and even then I need a bottle brush to be pushed up and down the slot for quite a number of minutes to eventually shift it Why tell you this? Well, it might just be that in a concentrate a much stronger bleach is needed - maybe even undiluted bleach My chemistry knowledge is practically non existent so I know nothing of what operates like bleach but is both safe and stronger Mike |
I use household bleach bottles to store my fix, when they go black inside they are replaced
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John, are you using the bleach at full strength, undiluted? I did this same thing some months ago and it took a few days of soaking with full strength bleach to get the bottles clean. But it did work well. Just needs time is all.
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Bleach
Basically no. The main reason being I an conserving my household cleaning bits and pieces because I am in voluntary isolation apart from my allowable exercise period and try not to go near any shops to replace anything unless I absolutely have to.
I may find I can try the old trick of a handful of small pebbles and a 1/4 bottle of water and shake them until my eyes pop out. As it is a plastic bottle and quite thick there should be no risk of damage. |
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This lock-down is bringing home to me on a daily basis problems that were just not problems before Mike |
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Cleaning with Bleach
Making light of it, I lost my marbles years ago (according to the 'boss'):o
I have a lot to do today so if I can get round to it, I may do the same using a load of stainless steel nuts and bolts of varying sizes that I have in my garage. If that doesn't work then I will have finished up with the countries major source of sterile fixings! Stay safe everyone. |
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And would you believe we nearly have a Smilie that shows you doing it! :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: :D Terry S |
Ya gotta have a larf, innit!
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