[Frameworks] Homemade fixer?

[David Kidman]

If you are going to go kitchen and garden, you can use salt, it does take two days and the émulsion can get waterlogged and start floating away. Filtered onion soup with grated Fa stick antiperspirant ( it contains alun) works better and quicker, but still an overnight shift. Also mint and sage solution gives a clearer negative than caffenol (using an accelerator like sodium carbonate, just as with caffenol). I don’t have exact quantities for these, a lot of mint and half as much sage, though. It helps to have a wild o semi-wild source Io experiment, because the varieties have very different results. 
Good luck

David

> On 12 Oct 2020, at 01:47, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
> 
> You really need fixer, but because the chemistry is pretty much the same
> all over, the fixer used for kodaliths at the print shop or the t-shirt
> shop will work... so will the fixer used for x-rays at the hospital. 
> 
> You can just make sodium thiosulfate or ammonium thiosulfate solution 
> without a hardener... it is asking for emulsion damage to do that, but it
> is better than nothing.
> 
> The salt solution... sort of works.... it will work for a little while, but
> it won't work very well and you will need to refix your film as soon as 
> possible with a proper fixer.  
> 
> Find a still photographer in your area who might have some idea of 
> old leftover supplies and older photographers.
> --scott
> 
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