[Leica] OT WTB: stainless steel film development reels for 127 roll film

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Thank you all. I had already been in touch with Hewes UK. They continue to 
have 127 SS reels in stock, at the princely sum of 14 GBP per spiral (as 
they call them), but they are not distributed here in the U.S.  My sense is 
that Hewes don't recognize any major direct export opportunity in selling 
onesies and twosies to the U.S.  Rather than troubling them to deviate from 
their business model, I'll try to salvage one or two here from someone's 
long forgotten box of juvenilia. Although not easy to come by, I doubt these 
reels are in great demand, since the 12th of July, World Summer 127 Day 
(winter in tne antipodes), has come and gone without noticeable spiking in 
the global consumption of 127 film. I'm waiting to see whether December 7 or 
January 27 wins out as World Winter 127 Day in the northern hemisphere.?

The adjustable plastic reels are common (Paterson, Arista et al.) and do 
fit, but issues associated with their use are greatly exacerbated by 
tightly-curled 127 film.

OT link, for amusement purposes only:  http://www.onetwoseven.org.uk/



Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:44:10 -0400
From: Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
Subject: Re: [Leica] WTB: stainless steel film development reels for
    127 roll film
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Message-ID: <CA4602BA.11E31%mark at rabinergroup.com>
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Hewes Products    Telephone :- +44(0) 1767 651333
Wren Park    Facsimile :- +44(0) 1767 651313
Cinques Road    
Gamlingay    
Sandy    
Bedfordshire, SG19 3PB
England

They have C.N.C. machining and spark erosion facilities now.
Its not just some guys back in a garage twisting wires.

Mark William Rabiner


My Brownie Starlet make 4x4cm pix on 127 film.
IMAGE SIZE: 1-5/8 x 1-5/8in.
If you were 9 it was the camera to use in 1959.
  later called the Brownie Bullet II





> From: Mark Kronquist <mak at teleport.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:30:03 -0700
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] WTB: stainless steel film development reels for 127 
> roll
> film
> 
> Hewes used to make them. They are, like all Hewes products, tough. I have
> several. Mark in Portland
> On Jul 15, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>> The only way I was able to run the 127 film I processed as a teen was by
>> using an adjustable plastic reel which had a setting for it. This was the
>> first reel I ever owned. Which I switched to metal I didn't for that 
>> reason
>> throw it away.
>> I think its entirely possible that a metal reel for 127 which I see is 
>> 44mm
>> wide was never made.
>> But I bet if you emailed Hewe's in Gamlingay, Bedfordshire in England 
>> you'd
>> make one up for you to your specifications and only change you a few 
>> hundred
>> pounds. They do make reels to order it looks like.
>> info at hewes.co.uk
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> 
>> 
>>> From: "Peter M. C. Choy" <pmcc_2000 at yahoo.com>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:02:05 -0700 (PDT)
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: [Leica] WTB: stainless steel film development reels for 127 roll
>>> film
>>> 
>>> Looking for a stainless steel developing reel to load 127 roll film. 
>>> Please
>>> contact me off-list.
>>> P. Choy
>>> SF, CA
>>>