Water too warm?

I use a tempering bath with ice to chill my developer, stop bath, and fixer whenever the ground water temperature is above 68F. That's more than half the year, more like 8 or 9 months of the year, so I'm chilling more often than not.

I never chill the hypo-clear or wash water, and I have never had an instance of reticulated film emulsion.
 
The Ice cubes method works fine. But with certain films you have to take care of the reticulation problem (Efke old school type films). You can also go to dilution H (1+63) which gives 2x times of HC-110 dilution B (1+31).
 
I would cool it down to 20, or try semi stand with very dilute developer. You won't have to worry about short processing times.

Try it on an unimportant roll first to make sure you trust the method.
 
Water at my place needs hot water mixed in to get it to 20ºC. Water after running the tap for a minute is approx 10ºC only... Summer or winter. Unless it's a cold winter, in which case it's less...

25ºC is close to hot enough for a comfortable bath:p
 
buzzardkid said:
Water at my place needs hot water mixed in to get it to 20ºC. Water after running the tap for a minute is approx 10ºC only... Summer or winter. Unless it's a cold winter, in which case it's less...

25ºC is close to hot enough for a comfortable bath:p
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Actually Johan, it still constitutes a "cold shower" if you want to give it a try. ;-)

I found that it really is not a problem - Load some ice in a freezer bag and put it in a small plastic tub of water, and by the time I have loaded the film in the tank the temp is very close to 20 C. I use water straight from the tub to mix the developer, and put the tank in the tub while developing - problem solved! The temp does not rise more than 1 degree in fifteen minutes.

Randy
 
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