> Have you tried Freestyle? They seem to be quite >reliable. I have the advantage that they are only a short >drive from my home but they seem to have a very good mail >order reputation.
It hadn't occurred to me that they'd stock the Kodak chemistry; they have their own 3-bath "Arista" brand, and I don't want 3-bath, but I bet they do carry Kodak.
I called a friend at Calumet who told me that if I ordered a 5L kit from them it'd drop-ship to me from Kodak and that if I got short-dated product directly from Kodak please let them know immediately. Looking at the remnants of the packaging from the last kit I got from Adorama, it appears that, in fact, Kodak may have sent me short-dated product directly from their Newark warehouse. Whoever sent me nearly-expired chems, I'm not going to let it happen again!
I have ordered 30L worth of wide-mouth thick square HDPE bottles from McMaster-Carr and will just devote the freezer in my darkroom fridge to E6 chemistry mixed as full kits of working solutions in .5L or 1L bottles. That has been working well for me with C41 since Kodak went to the 2L developer packaging so hopefully it will work for E6 too.
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