Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/17

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Subject: [Leica] Technical problem--suggestions?
From: jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 04:45:17 -0500
References: <084fbf882434c58c42f7a211a658a2d8@mail.gmail.com> <DE7D73BEFFE24454ACB9AE89FC105D0F@jimnichols>

Perhaps a washer as a shim under the cassette... slightly wider than the 
diameter of the cassette.

Jim H.



On 12/16/12 11:18 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> Jim,
>
> As I see it, the film is riding too low as it passes the exposure 
> opening. I would try a shim on the cartridge end, to raise the 
> cartridge, and be sure that the takeup spool is pushed all of the way 
> up when it is inserted.  My IIIa is packed away, but that is the way I 
> recall the mechanism.
>
> I'm not sure that cartridge spool dimensions are the same as they once 
> were.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Shulman" 
> <jshulman at judgecrater.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 8:58 PM
> Subject: [Leica] Technical problem--suggestions?
>
>
>> Shooting with my recently rehabbed Leica iiib, and love it!
>>
>> Unfortunately, it had (and has) an issue with frame placement?namely 
>> that
>> the frame image is gapping by the top perforations, and descending 
>> into the
>> lower perforations.  Illustration here:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/focusit/samples+with+perforation+bleeds.jpg.html
>>  
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Any idea how to remedy this with standard 35mm cartridges (and not
>> bulk-loading into my collection of FILCA cassettes <g>.)
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jim Shulman
>>
>> Wynnewood, PA
>>
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