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Originally Posted by Martin Aislabie
The sealing face is the flat surface at the top of the tank.
Applying PTFE tape to the tanks top sealing face would be very tricky - as you need to do it in perfect darkness.
Depressurising the tank is often enough to stop the tank from leaking - after you pour the chemicals in to the tank and having agitated the chemicals for the first time - you then need to lift the soft lid off its sealing surface, then press the soft lid in to a slight concave shape and pop it back on to the tanks again.
It works well enough for me - YMMV
Regardless of leaks or not - its still worth donning a pair of yellow Marigold rubber gloves - keeping photographic chemicals off bare skin is always a good idea.
Martin
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yeah i use the depressure method on soft lids as its all we have at uni unless we go colour and its the jobo tank
was just thinking the PTFE as it was said it was from the threaded lid, bit on there should tighten the seal enough to stop liquid coming out and shouldnt alter the light seal...
gloves???? nowt better than the smell of dev and fix on your hands all day after doing a film in the morning