I'm wondering if there is an alternative to Vanbar as supplier of photo chemicals in Australia. I enquired today specifically about phenidone, which is on the Vanbar website at $77 for 100g. I wanted to know if smaller quantities are available, as most of the formulae I know of use very small amounts and 100g would see me out for life. Blind optimistic fool that I am, I expected a positive response. But no, 'we're out of stock, and even if we had some we couldn't supply less than 100g'.
Bloody hell... We can't get a lot of these chemicals from USA because of their rules preventing shipment by air, and from my past experience the large chemical suppliers in Australia won't sell to humble hobbyists. So what on earth do we do??? I'm wondering if anyone on the forum knows of an alternative in Australia. In the 80s and 90s I used to deal with David Canaway in Keilor, who had great stocks and traded under the name of Canchem, but I think he sold out due to health problems. Perhaps Vanbar bought him out. God forbid.