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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 22:21:24 +0100
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From: Don Krehbiel <dkrehbie@S...>
Subject: Minox cassette GOTCHA
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Overconfidence and stupidity may be synonymous. I knew that the old
cassettes with the taped on caps had felt light traps, but the ASA 25
ULTRA (AgfaPan) from the =9170s had no felt. This week I loaded six
cassettes, some of which I had not previously used. As usual I spread
out everything where I could find it in the dark. I have never worried
about which cover went with which cassette. In 2 of them I could not
pull the film out of the supply side to attach the takeup spool. I had
noticed that when placing the caps on the supply side in the dark, there
did not seem to be a =93snap=94 but ignored it. Mistake #1. It turns ou=
t
that there are indeed black plastic cassettes out there WITH felt
liners. The film channel is much thicker and caps from the =93feltless=94
cassettes WILL NOT fit. That is wrong. They WILL fit, but pinch the
film so it will not move. I now have a picture of the problem in the=20
"devices to slit, load and develop Tech Pan for the Minox" link of the
"film" section of my site.

I obviously have acquired some new cassettes.

Don
http://www.slonet.org/~dkrehbie/
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