Dear Bill! Glad to see you’re well. What a beautiful video! Brought back a lot of lovely memories of Photostock. Hope to make back to another one soon! :)
@BillSchwab4 жыл бұрын
Great to hear from you, Arnaldo! Thank you for reaching out!! I do hope you are well.
@travis02714 жыл бұрын
Great to see you making videos, Bill! I've always admired your work.
@BillSchwab4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Travis!
@donnelson22504 жыл бұрын
Bill - suggestion - get yourself a tiny plastic funnel. Drop the powder off the paper into the funnel directly into the bottle, then pour in the beaker of Salt water. No waste powder left in the funnel (its washed in) and nothing at all in the beaker. Shake and put into the hot water bath for final dissolving of the powder... Works fine. Best regards
@donnelson22504 жыл бұрын
And very nice job on the video! Good to see you promoting the craft.
@BillSchwab4 жыл бұрын
Hi Don, thank you! My experience with plastic funnels hasn’t been good. I actually have a small glass one that I use. We all have our ways of doing it and in every way there is some residual powder left. More of a stain than anything. I appreciate the input. I’m sure it will help people further find their way.
@greg7mdp24 жыл бұрын
Nice video, Bill. Just an idea, in order to waste a minimum of the precious powder, I would weigh the palladium chloride in a second beaker, and then pour the salted water into that second beaker and mix with the same spoon used for transferring it from the bottle (instead of the glass rod). That way no loss of powder on the paper and spoon handle.
@BillSchwab4 жыл бұрын
greg7mdp2 Good idea Greg. However, the loss of powder on the spoon and paper is pretty minimal, but yes... there’s always a better way. I appreciate the input.
@thesilverdarkroom4 жыл бұрын
Good to see Curtis!
@1705s2 жыл бұрын
THX for the explination! I like it how You explane and I will try it as You showed! THX from stefan👍👍👍
@BillSchwab2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Stefan! I hope it works out OK for you! Keep me posted.
@mikecastles4 жыл бұрын
Great instruction video, glad Curtis was 'helping' pickup the mail with you. Seriously, nice work and should help a lot of folks. I always get nervous when mixing up the palladium salts.
@BillSchwab4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Mike! Yes... Curt looks for any and all reasons to go to the mailbox. ;)
@johnsimmons50564 жыл бұрын
Great video...like the drone intro over your workshop. Are those all palladium prints on your desk ?
@BillSchwab4 жыл бұрын
Yes. Those are all palladium prints. A couple of them have gum bichromate overlays as well. Thank you!
@wyopobo53394 жыл бұрын
Nice video. I'm looking forward to see the printing.
@BillSchwab4 жыл бұрын
I’ll get to that pretty soon. If you subscribe, you should get notice. Thank you!
@fotomuvesz Жыл бұрын
My questions: what is the temperature of the water on the small hotplate? Isn't it better to start the solution in warm water? How many degrees did you heat the finished solution to so that it dissolves better?
@rockanchor4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Bill. Will you do one for Platinum too. Sometime?
@tareqzurooq71804 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much
@hajmanek2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video
@BillSchwab2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching! Good luck!
@dreigencosmico11302 жыл бұрын
The best from Mexico Bill 🙏✌️👍🍀📸
@BillSchwab2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! And to you as well! Thank you for watching!
@cowboyyoga3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Bill )))
@shajinjaleelartist3 жыл бұрын
Thank you sir
@jpayed Жыл бұрын
I also have a saddle back GSD... and also refine precious metal from scrap! Only difference is I'm in the tropics. I hate it here. Grew up in New England... planing on moving back. My dog needs space to roam and I need to get away from public. 😂
@hanshabel91003 жыл бұрын
Hello Bill, how long can the mixed solution Palladium chloride + Sodium chloride + water mixture be used.
@BillSchwab3 жыл бұрын
Hi Hans, Great question. As long as you keep the solution in a tightly closed, brown bottle, it should last forever. If for some reason it dried out, you could use the powder remaining to mix again. Thank you!
@F1lmtwit4 жыл бұрын
So, once mixed how long does the solution keep? Should it be kept refrigerated?
@BillSchwab4 жыл бұрын
As long as you keep it in a tightly sealed, brown bottle, it should last a long, long time. It is the ferric oxalate that you mix with the palladium solution that times out after a couple of months. The palladium should be good forever.
@F1lmtwit4 жыл бұрын
@@BillSchwab - Thanks - 2 questions (A) the mix above calls for Sodium chloride at 1.6 gm, but in the video (6:44ish) you say 2.0 grams. (B) When heating the palladium after mixing, what temperature and for how long?
@BillSchwab4 жыл бұрын
Hi Jeff, Thanks for pointing that out. I tend to go with the 2 full grams and I don't notice any differences. Basically the salt makes the solution dissolve better and I don't think the extra does any harm. As for heating, I use a coffee cup warmer with a beaker of water in it to place the mixture in it's bottle. 120 to 140 degrees should do. Again, this helps with speeding the dissolve.
@lhuhnphotography Жыл бұрын
Hi Bill, I just watched this video several times and I am confused about how y h palladium you are using and what percent solution you are making. At one point you seem to say 2.5 grams of palladium and then later I think you say 2.3 grams. Can you please clarify? What percent solution are you making here?
@BillSchwab Жыл бұрын
Hi Larry. Sorry for the confusion. Follow the formula in the written description which is 2.3 g. 2.5 won’t hurt. You’re going between a nine and a 10% solution. Personally, I go on the lighter side because I don’t see much difference and I am just frugal.
@lhuhnphotography Жыл бұрын
Thanks Bill. That clears it up. I have been using the Palladium #3 (15%) for NA2 but you seem to be doing pure palladium prints. I have a decision point now regarding percentage before I mix.
@BillSchwab Жыл бұрын
@@lhuhnphotography I understand completely. Maybe you could mix up a small amount and see how you feel about it.
@lhuhnphotography Жыл бұрын
Bill, are you using straight FO or FO with Potassium Chlorate with the 10% palladium?
@BillSchwab Жыл бұрын
@@lhuhnphotography hi Larry. I just use the straight Ferric. I don’t use any of the potassium chlorate, contrasting agent. Unless I’m doing in-camera negatives, I don’t do any contrast control other than through the negative.
@Puresniper10003 жыл бұрын
Do you mix your own ferric oxalate Bill?
@BillSchwab3 жыл бұрын
Hi Gary, I usually order mine from Bostick and Sullivan. Previously in powder form which I mixed myself, but now most often premixed. Bostick will sell it as "dry packs" that are remeasured into 25mm bottles. My trick to mixing is to add you distilled water and leave your bottle in a beaker with some water heated on on Coffee cup warmer. Keep shaking it ever so often to suspend undissolved powder until it clears.
@Puresniper10003 жыл бұрын
@@BillSchwab thanks Bill
@stealthvanlife68674 жыл бұрын
Hey Bill, fantastic videos on the Pt/Pd series. I have been buying the solutions pre-mixed, but now I know how to mix it myself, so thank you. How long do you leave the mixed sensitizer in the warmer bath? Also in the notes, you list 1.6g of salt, but in the video you used 2g. Which is correct? - Also, you have my vote on mixing the Ferric Oxalate next.
@stealthvanlife68674 жыл бұрын
Hi Bill, just checking in again to see about the discrepancy between the 2g vs. 1.6g as stated above?
@fotorat4 жыл бұрын
I see you're getting your palladium from Signa Aldrich?
@donnelson22504 жыл бұрын
Thats an Artcraft Chemicals label on the incoming box. today's price has increased to $56.65 gm up from $49.00 last week. B&S is at $65/gm.
@stealthvanlife68674 жыл бұрын
@@donnelson2250 Do the prices change all the time? The reason I ask is that I may want to time my purchase or only purchase in small 10g to 20g amounts to average out my overall costs.
@donnelson22504 жыл бұрын
@@stealthvanlife6867 Spot market prices change all the time, but Artcraft and B&S change slowly - likely because they buy a coin and then convert it into powder needed to make the solutions. So change comes slowly to their prices