Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/30

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Pulling the film leader ot of the canister
From: c.blaue@bmsg.de
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 01:02:05 +0100
 
Harrison McClary <hmcclary@earthlink.net> writes:

     > One thing you can do, though still awkward, is to take a piece of film
     > about 4 inches long cut off the sprocket holes, lick it and stick it
     > into the film canister.  Once inserted turn the film inside the
     > canister with the spool until the film you stuck into the canister is
     > almost all the way pulled into the canister then pull it out.  9.9
     > times out of 10 this will get the leader out.  An old UPI trick.

Harrison,

thank you very much, that was a nice X-mas presy. I just tried it and it
works! I like to fiddle the film into the developers reel while it is still
out. This time it wasn't but now it is.

christoph