Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >