Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/21

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Subject: [Leica] steel reels
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Sun Nov 21 20:05:48 2004
References: <be.1c571180.2ed2a96a@aol.com>

And, with a little practice, you can easily re-load wet/damp steel 
reels.  Next to impossible with those made of plastic.

Jim


SonC@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 11/21/2004 8:21:14 PM Central Standard Time, 
> jefferys@gmail.com writes:
> Steel 120 reels give me absolute fits. I keep going back to Patterson.
> 
> 
> I haven't loaded a reel in maybe ten years, but I could do it perfectly 
> tomorrow, all day if it were a steel reel.  The trick is to cup the film 
> ever so 
> slightly, and just start rolling the reel in your hand, keeping the cup.  
> Try it 
> in hte light a few times, and you'll be an expert.  The steel ones don't 
> get 
> smelly and ugly like the plastic ones do.
> 
> Regards, 
> Sonny
> http://www.sonc.com
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
> Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane
> ?galit?, libert?, crawfish
>  



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