Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] re: Rapidwinders -TOTALLY ON TOPIC
From: Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:27:22 -0800
References: <B8B2AD30.1B231%jbcollier@powersurfr.com>

At 6:51 PM -0700 3/11/02, John Collier wrote:
>My bottom plate basket balks at the take up tulip at times.
>
>John Collier
>
>>  From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
>>
>>>  I always found
>>>  the plastic
>>>  Roller a bother. It never slipped in over the "tulip" as you
>>>  wanted, most of
>>>  the time the spokes of it got stuck, or hit the tips of the
>>>  "tulip" take up
>>>  spool and required that you fiddled with it.
>>
>>  Hi Tuulikki,
>>
>>  I believe the above is an exaggeration.  I've got probably 2000 rolls of
>>  film on an M6 with the RapidWinder, and the basket, and I have not in one
>>  instance ever had a problem as you describe.  I've also never seen anyone on
>>  this list complain of such a problem, and none of the camera review sites
>>  that have reviews of the M6 claim this as a problem...  I don't dispute it
>>  was a problem for you, as you are relaying your personal experience, but I
>>  don't believe it's much of an issue for others.
>>
>>  As I've said, I have had misloads, as well as have read others have had
>  > misloads, without the basket...and I've had NO misloads with it.
>>

It's happened to me too at times, and loading without the basket can 
be quicker. You just have to try it and see what works.

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