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Hello,

 

I recently came across a whole load of chemicals that were used between 3 different standalone machines - we have 2 of them now but havent managed to get them fixed so id like to try and mix up the chems and do it by hand in the meantime.

I have only ever done B/W so im rather unsure of if this is acceptable in terms of mixing and matching, or what im actually supposed to do with said chemicals. The imgur link has the ones i think may be most appropriate but i have a few questions:

 

1) I understand im supposed to mix the dev starter/replenisher/water to create a working dev solution but is it okay to use an RA4 starter with c41 replenisher? If not there is a c41 bottle but it looks a little mankiy! (I realise this probably wont work but thats where the fun comes in right)

2) If theres A+B+C replenisher, itd make sense that its just 1/3rd each ?

3) This bleach fix mixture (blix?) should be fine on its own or do i need some starter too? There is a bottle of replenisher but im not sure if there was starter - and does it matter that it says B, should there be accompanying A and C?

4) Stabilizer and replenisher should be good to go as a single mix, with no other additional chemicals?

 

Finally 5), assuming i cant find any sort of original instructions for the machines themselves, would it be best to just mix each up individually as if it were going into a 1L solution and then mix all that together after?

 

Thanks everyone!

 

Heres the bottles:

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RA-4 Developer to make 1 Liter

Water 700 ml

Part A 40 ml

Part B 17.8 ml

Part C 40 ml

Starter 25mm

Add water if needed to make 1000 ml

 

Bleach-Fix to make 1 Liter

Water 658 ml

Part A 142 ml

Part B 200 ml

Add water if needed to make 1000 ml

No starter needed for small batch work.

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RA-4 Developer to make 1 Liter

Water 700 ml

Part A 40 ml

Part B 17.8 ml

Part C 40 ml

Starter 25mm

Add water if needed to make 1000 ml

 

Bleach-Fix to make 1 Liter

Water 658 ml

Part A 142 ml

Part B 200 ml

Add water if needed to make 1000 ml

No starter needed for small batch work.

 

Thats perfect thank you! - where did you get these from or are they educated guesses? I googled a bit and it seems the RA-4 is for paper rather than developer. The bottle of the film dev says 207ml water, 763 replenisher no1 and 30ml of the starter which is rather different to the RA-4 mix so looks like i cant just mix and match the recipe with the different dev. Nothing has come up searching various mixes of "kfsr" and "developer starter" on the internet unless im looking in all the wrong places.

I saw your post on the thread 9 years ago from someone who did it successfully but truth be told looking at these chemicals i will need all the help i can get to have any results

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Thats perfect thank you! - where did you get these from or are they educated guesses? I googled a bit and it seems the RA-4 is for paper rather than developer. The bottle of the film dev says 207ml water, 763 replenisher no1 and 30ml of the starter which is rather different to the RA-4 mix so looks like i cant just mix and match the recipe with the different dev. Nothing has come up searching various mixes of "kfsr" and "developer starter" on the internet unless im looking in all the wrong places.

I saw your post on the thread 9 years ago from someone who did it successfully but truth be told looking at these chemicals i will need all the help i can get to have any results

C-41 ---- water = 700 ml Part A 75 ml Part B 125 ml Part C 11.75 ml Starter 18 ml water to make 1000 ml

Google Kodak mixing small batches etc.

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