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Adrian Winchester
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From: Croydon, London, UK
Registered: Aug 2004

posted September 16, 2014 07:02 PM

Andrew - I've treated, at a rough guess, in the region of 30-40 film and never had a comparable result (or lack of result). If the scratches were on the emulsion side, I'd have to speculate that maybe the Film Guard (which I haven't used) managed to provide am effective barrier to the water, which surprises me but I suppose could be possible.

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Andrew Woodcock
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posted September 17, 2014 01:57 AM

No Adrian you shouldn't be at all surprised because I suspect you are bang on with your judgement call there.

As the film was being raised from the bath after twenty minutes you could visibly note the barrier the Filmguard had made acting as a water repellent. The blobs of moisture just beaded on the surface of the film before wiping them off with a towel. It was reminiscent of how a cars bonnet appears in the rain after a recent application of Turtle Wax.

For me, luckily this means, that whilst if I am ever affected by flood damage up to my bedroom window in height (as if), my films should stay protected I suspect, but as they are all treated with Filmguard, the "soft" hot water treatment to eliminate emulsion scratches will never work on my personal film collection regretfully so long as the main deciding factor in the process is the surrounding of the water on the film rather than the actual temperature of the liquid itself doing all the work in covering the scratch by dye seepage.

As I am no chemist, I really have no clue to the answer to that question.

If Filmguard is the culprit in stopping this process from working then I think this is the first negative thing that I could ever level at it regarding it's protection of films.

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Adrian Winchester
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posted September 17, 2014 04:28 PM

Andrew - Well, I think the 'barrier' can be considered a tribute to Film Guard's effectiveness, especially considering that it is applied so sparingly! I'll modify any water treatment information I mention anywhere in future, to say that it's not recommended for films previously treated with this product. I guess that may apply to one or two other film treatments as well.

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