MattKing
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They may have been stuck together on the bottom of the bottle.
They may have been stuck together on the bottom of the bottle.I'm pretty sure that when last used there were no crystals.
When news that Agfa was discontinuing Rodinal I immediately bought 6 bottles...a lifetime supply.. No changes in use detected. Like honey found in some ancient Egyptian tombs, seems to last forever.
I never had any of the original Rodinal go bad on me. I mix Gainer's EZ-Rodinal these days and it is good for at least a few years. That is an all Sodium based formula. If you want to try Rodinal don't be put off by what you discovered in your friend's bottle. Who knows what happened to it when he had it. He might have poured something back into it or left the cap loose for years. Never know.
I had the same issue of huge crystals forming with the version sold in Canada. Blazinal.
Well this may be true in your area Donald, it isn't necessarily the case elsewhere - the OP is in Norway..If you want to try Rodinal, and mix your own developers at all, you likely only need to spend around $10 to make your own -- acetaminophen/paracetamol tablets, drain opener lye, and sodium sulfite (plus water, preferably distilled for mixing this). Formulas for "Parodinal" are all over the place.
Well this may be true in your area Donald, it isn't necessarily the case elsewhere - the OP is in Norway..
I know that lye is relatively difficult to source here, and we have already discussed how much more expensive sodium sulfite is here.
But the developer still worked, at least to some extent, right?
Adox APH09 was an old 1945 Agfa formula for Rodinal. Adox offered it as an alternative to the 2004 formula which is sold as Rodinal or Adonal. For a few years they offered both versions until APH09 was discontinued about two years ago.I dug my old bottle out of the trash, it reads Adox APH 09, Scharfesteigernder Filmentwicker, Freestyle currently lists Adox Rodinal, I got my old bottle from Freestyle a couple of years ago, so I assume a change in label, still the same stuff.
Adox APH09 was an old 1945 Agfa formula for Rodinal. Adox offered it as an alternative to the 2004 formula which is sold as Rodinal or Adonal. For a few years they offered both versions until APH09 was discontinued about two years ago.
Well this may be true in your area Donald, it isn't necessarily the case elsewhere - the OP is in Norway..
I know that lye is relatively difficult to source here, and we have already discussed how much more expensive sodium sulfite is here.
I take it that Adox R08 and Adox Rodinal are the same version of their version of 2004 Agfa Rodinal?
The problem I see here is that lye-based drain cleaner sold here can be pure NaOH but likely be a compound, even containing solid Aluminium.
Having some crystals precipitate out of solution in the current formula(s) of Rodinal is normal and to be expected. However there is a "point of no return" where so much chemical has dropped out of solution - as in the OPs case - that the developer becomes inactive.
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