Cleaning developing tanks

**Matt Mengel** · 1-Apr-2005, 12:24

Hey Gang,
Someone gave me a set of developing tanks for 8x10 color paper processing. There are 4 tanks with lids and one taller tank without lid (washing?) in a water jacket and two baskets for holding 8 x 10 prints. The tanks are about 12" deep but only about 2" wide by 11" long. They are very dirty. I plan on using these for B&W sheet film processing and perhaps washing 8x10 prints in the baskets. How bad are the existing residual chemicals for color prints going to be for B&W and what would I use to clean them? The tanks had, respectively, developer/blix/stop/fixer. I do not know the makeup of color chemistry to know if this stuff is compatible with my B&W chemistry.
Thanks in advance.
Matt

**Richard Boulware** · 1-Apr-2005, 16:37

Kodak Developer Systems Cleaner is what we used for our big Kodak Versamat film processor, but we also used it for just about everything else. It worked very well, indeed.

**Stan. Laurenson-Batten** · 3-Apr-2005, 09:57

JOBO can supply a chemical cleaner for all photographic developing tanks and drums, it really works! Available from most good photographic equipment outlets.