Film developed in 130 paper developer

I've often heard that one can develop film in "alternative" developers such as coffee, badly polluted river water, etc. This morning while mixing some 130 paper developer I wondered what it would do as a film developer. "Why not-its got lots of the same ingredients?" This afternoon the thought hit me again so I loaded one sheet of 4X5 Arista 400 and went forth with my Crown Graphic and light meter. Fortunately my dog was sitting on the front steps and was willing to pose for me-click. I ran back inside, mixed 50ml of 130 stock with 500ml of water ("pretty potent stuff" I thought, hence the 1:10 dilution), poured that into a tray and dropped in the film. Six minutes and a little agitation later I rinsed the film, fixed it and upon turning on the lights found myself holding a pretty nice looking negative. Its drying now. Has anyone ever tried a similar experiment?

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