Wet Mount Scanning Fluid

[Richard Martel]

Thanks Ian.

Regards, Richard

[Pfeiffer Duckett]

Is the Kami significantly less flammable than Ronsonol?

Although Kami has a lower flash point temperature than Ronsonol, (16F vs 42F), Kami has a much smaller Flammable Limit of 0?%-.5%, and Ronsonol is 1%-7%. This means Kami shouldn't ignite if it has more than .5% of the vapor oxygen mixture is Kami at the point of ignition. Since both would be used in room temperature, Kami is less susceptible to catching fire, but I wouldn't test your luck on it.

[polyglot]

Film cleaner seems to be largely methanol - has anyone tried using that as mounting fluid?

[IanMazursky]

Thanks Pfeiffer for the explanation. I guess i should have paid more attention in chem class.
Kami is pretty safe from what i have said but like anything when flammables are involved, don't try your luck!

[Keith S. Walklet]

Polygot, I am sad to say that i did try mounting with PEC-12, when testing the wet-mount station of a friend's V-750 a few years back. He was out of KAMI and I reasoned that if I cleaned my film with the PEC-12, that it wouldn't hurt to have it sitting on the film for an extended period.

It melted my film. Biggest bummer was that up to that point, I had used the same piece of film to test all the scanners I was comparing.