Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'll strongly endorse the Hews reels. Metal reels were a disaster for me until I bought a Hews reel. It was so easy compared to the junk I was using I shed a man tear there in the dark. I pulled all the cheap reels apart and made hangers out of them. Chris On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>wrote: > They get sold under the name "Jobo" really! > That's what it said on the red cardboard boxes I got mine at Pro Photo > Portland Oregon. > You can drop them off the top of the empire state building and will not > dent. > Ok maybe the Chrysler building. If it hits the lawn. > > -- > Mark R. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ > > > > From: Mike Durling <durling at cox.net> > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:11:22 -0500 > > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] My first self-developed roll in 9 years > > > > I found it helps a lot to replace the stock Nikor reels with the good > > Hewes reels. They are sold under a variety of names but all say made in > > England. They are much easier to load. Unfortunately they are a little > > taller so the lid on my 2-reel tank doesn't seal very well. Still light > > tight, but leaks chemicals sometimes. > > > > Mike D > > > > On 1/10/12 12:01 AM, Marty Deveney wrote: > >> Yes, the metal lids are great and last forever. Some later metal > >> tanks had rubberised plastic lids that eventually fail. If you have > >> some of the tall metal lids that seal properly you have something that > >> will last forever, unless you run it over with a truck. The reels you > >> still need to be careful with. > >> > >> Marty > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak<amr3 at uwm.edu> > wrote: > >>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 Marty Deveney<benedenia at gmail.com>wrote: > >>> > >>>> Indeed. When I worked briefly in a darkroom in Prague, there were > >>>> pre-World War 2 tanks still in use. But the lids had been replaced, > >>>> probably several times. Do your Nikors have new lids? > >>>> Marty > >>> > ============================================================================ > >>> ================= > >>> All our tanks have the original metal lids, and these old tanks have > >>> tapered, taller ones that I prefer to the later ones, since they don't > get > >>> jammed and hard to remove. > >>> > >>> > >>> Alan > >>> > >>> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer > >>> UPAA POY 1978 > >>> University Information Technology Services > >>> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee > >>> amr3 at uwm.edu > >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > >>> > >>> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate > >>> for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Leica Users Group. > >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Chris Saganich www.imagebrooklyn.com