[rollei_list] Re: A tape too thin

At 06:08 PM 9/28/2008, Jerry Lehrer wrote:
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>My "fail-safe"  take-up spool is an ooold Agfa spool with a WOOD
>center!  The wood has a very thin slit for the leader to slip thru.  I must
>have used it for hundreds of rolls of 120 film over the years.
I have a number of these wooden spools scavanaged from old cameras over the years. The use of metal caps on a wooden spool was the normal means of producing 120 rolls until around 1960. The production of such items was manpower-heavy and Kodak introduced 620 with its metal spools as a substitute in the 1930 as these were a lot less expensive to manufacture. Once industrial plastics became the norm, 120 spools switched over to that and 620 rapidly disappeared. 

Marc


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