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Happens to the best of us,Richard
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You can be too even in aggitation, the motorised base does just that, very even aggitaion. It needs to be more random, just like hand aggitation. Try putting a flourescent lamp starter (a cheap one not a posh electonic one) in series with the mains input to the motor unit, this will give a random start stop to the motion. I don't know how this will affect the motors life, however it will be random. I guess we have all seen the random flickering of a non starting office lamp before.
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Trevor, I remember reading some where about a photographer who uses 3 Jessops plastic paper-safes for processing 10x8 sheet-films, one with developer, one with stop-bath and the third with fixer. He reported that he got very even processing with that method. Once the film-sheet is inside and the cover is secured, you can go into room light.
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As mentioned I had no problems with negative development until I started to use that darn motorised base. Just being lazy really, didn't really want to stand there jiggling the tank by hand.
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I tried the Paterson orbital for 5x4" when it first came out & was dismayed by the 'v' shaped agitation marks caused by the pins that separate the sheets - I think there's some trick for avoiding that, anyone know what it is?
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Use irregular agitation "in the hand" rather than on the base with about three times the recommended volume of fluid seems to be the way to go.
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