[pure-silver] Re: Need help with tightly curled film...

In the arts center darkroom I've taken over, I found a bunch of these coiled 
plastic 
gizmos that substitute for reels. I can't recall the name of the things right 
now, but they 
were made by Kodak. They're the width of your film (35mm and 120), and are made 
with 
this nipply ridge along the edges. The idea is that the ridges grip the edges 
of the film, 
and keep the image area between them from touching anything. Then the whole 
thing is 
loaded into a loader. They look pretty funky, but one of these probably would 
work. I'm 
going to be trying one later this year when I tackle some of the four dozen 
rolls of 35mm 
my dad never processed after he shot them in the early 1960s. 

I don't know but your friend might have trouble after processing as well. Some 
rolls that 
my dad did process but left rolled up for 40+ years still curl up severely, and 
it was 18 
months ago that I sleeved and stowed these under 20 pounds of books.

Mike

On 19 Jun 2008 at 16:41, Speedy wrote:

From:                   Speedy <speedgraphic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject:                [pure-silver] Need help with tightly curled film...
Date sent:              Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:41:15 +0000
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> 
> I am posting this for a friend who has asked my advice.  Any help on
> this would be educational and most greatly appreciated.
> 
> My friend wrote:
> 
> "I have been wrestling
> with the most cantankerous and miserable spool of 120 film I have ever
> dealt with. It has rolled and taken a set so tight that whatever I do
> I cannot get it to start and stay in the spool when I try to load it.
> Any tricks or suggestions from your past that you can pass on? I mean
> when you let go of one end of this baby it snaps back into a tight
> roll loke a metal spring does. It stays coiled so tight I can't even
> keep it flat to start it on the roll, even after creasing it about an
> inch into the film. I have it separated from the paper and sitting in
> my tank loose at this point."
> 
> THANKS!
> Speedy
> 
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