Response to agitation: I do it different; it works, so why is it the oddball way?

I agitate aggresively too Shawn(martini martini martini then twisting twisting twisting)... don't fret.. YOU ARE NOT ALONE, I use plastic tanks and reels so it ends up the same as gentler agits with SS I'd imagine. My tray processing techniques are all over the map... in technidol I grab alternating corners and flail on that sucker 5 every 30 and rock roughly throughout... with trix in nearly all my devs(RS,Perceptol, DD76) I rock as gently as a baby for 5 every 30. I've deluded myself into all kinds of stoopid rationalizations about my weird and varied lightsource(s), devs and so on but it's really just superstition. I don't figure it matters as much as consistency. Now if i can just remember which method goes with which film in which dev for what source? Oh geez...

I worked in a lab too so I've seen bad methods (GEOFF PEVETO)... that's the one where you put the tanknreels on top of a wobbling and ancient model 3 wing lynch while it's torturing client's e6 and forget about it for 30 minutes or so. Or you could plop it atop a silver recovery unit that's about to explode due to a few thousand missed deplatings... they wobble pretty good (throw off some pretty fireworks in the end too!).

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