[Leica] Re: Rapidwinder and film mis-advance/loading....

[Ken Wilcox <wilcox@tir.com>]

I find the Rapidwinder works better for me with the basket mounted than
without.

Ken Wilcox

At 9:27 -0400 6/18/0, a fine scholar, Austin Franklin wrote:

>Has anyone ever found that the film load has not loaded properly with the
>Rapidwinder?  I know it is claimed that the 'basket' isn't necessary, but I
>never had a mis-loaded roll in hundreds of rolls without the Rapidwinder.
>
>I shot a roll last week at a very important event.  I noticed at the end of
>the roll, that the roll didn't stop...  I thought it just could have been
>the perforations on that last frame were torn through from the force of the
>Rapidwinder, so I just rewound the film, and put in a new roll...  Well, I
>was shooting this morning, and noticed the rewind crank was moving only a
>little....but not spinning as it should.  So, I tightened up the film with
>the rewind crank, so there would be no slack in it...and shot another few
>frames...again, little movement...  I opened the back, and found the film
>had not advanced at all!  It was in the take up spool fine, but the film
>was sitting too low, and the perforations were not in the cogs...so no
>advance.
>
>I'm going to take the 'basket' off the original bottom, and put it on the
>Rapidwinder.  This is the first roll of film in over 25 years of
>photography that I have ever had an advancing/loading problem with.  I
>think to claim you don't need the basket is possibly bad advice, at least
>for me it was.


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