Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/27

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Subject: [Leica] Anyone out there load cassettes from bulk film?
From: dlr at dlridings.se (dlr@dlridings.se)
Date: Wed Sep 27 06:27:43 2006
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Quarter inch masking tape?
Scotch "magic" tape?

Leica cassettes? (You don't need tape).

I bulk load, but only because modern cassettes don't seat properly in a
IIIc, not to save money.

Daniel

> I used to load my own Plus X in the late 1960's, but cooled off on it when
> I
> had problems with the damned film ends coming untaped at the end of the
> roll. I had to keep a changing bag in my trunk, and then take the film out
> of the bag in my darkroom. The tape that Kodak, Ilford, etc. use to affix
> the film to the spool is tenacious as hell. Anyone have a suggestion of
> what
> I should use? I have a feeling that "duct tape" is going to enter the
> conversation.


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