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ID 11 is exactly the same and is a powder.

Jon Goodman sells kits to replace light seals. I have one but have not used it yet. It comes with full instructions. Good after sales service too.

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Sorry, the Fairy washing up liquid is used as a wetting agent, I shouldn't submit posts after a bottle of wine!

I have recently returned to B&W processing after 20 years. Here on the Falkland Islands it can be expensive to import liquid chemicals. I am using ID11 (D 76 is identical) no stop bath, just a water rinse. I was lucky to find some Hypam fixer at work but had been trying to source a powder fixer to keep carriage costs down. A couple of drops of Fairy washing up liquid is fine as a stop bath, certainly no drying marks. I use Ilfords recommendation for washing, 5 inversions, 10 inversions, 20 inversions changing the water between each. The only problem has been dust but then I am working in less than ideal condotions. I scan the negs and Photoshop gets rid of the spots.

what does it matter what people say is the market price? If you want it at the price offered buy it, if not, don't.

If it is anything like the cover on the flash socket on the K1000 all I can add is that I lost mine after I had had the camera for five years and twenty years later still had no problems but just one thing less to worry about.

Norman

I have an Epson Stylus 1200 that went a couple of years unused. I used a whole set of ink cartridges on head cleans and printing on plain paper and it eventually cleared. It is now fine.

Does anyone know of a lab in Santiago, Chile that does mail order reversal

processing of 120 film?

I live in an area where the water tastes and smells of peat. Ilford recommended using bottled water for wash. I use a couple of drops of Fairy washing up liquid as wetting agent and wipe the surplus water off between my fingers. No drying marks and no scratches. I have done this for many years with no problems.

I remove the film from the backing paper by ripping through the tape before I load the spiral. Also you can load two films onto a plastic spiral if you wind the first right into the centre and then when you load the second film leave enough to wrap almost once around the spiral. I have never had any problems with this and you save time and chemicals.

Thanks for the suggestion, I will test it tomorrow.

I am new to scanners. I have just started scanning 6x7 and 6x9 B&W negs using

an Epson 4490. I am worried about the fact that the negative carrier does not

hold the film very flat and it is raised about 1mm above the glass. I have not

noticed any particular problem but I have only scanned about a dozen negs. Has

anybody found a problem with this, if so what have you done about it? Or am I

worried about nothing? Norman

I have just started using an Epson 4490 for scanning B&W negatives 6x7 and 6x9. The results were initially dreadful (high density, low contrast scans) but after a lot of fiddling I am now getting reasonable results. One thing that worries me is the negative holder, it does not hold the negatives flat and they are supported away from the glass. Will this give me out of focus scans?