KIEV take-up spools revisited

[newspaperguy]

Here is a post from 2008 that summarizes the most elegant fixes,

and ends the "Whoops, I dropped the spool" syndrome.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53863&highlight=kiev+take+up+spool

EDIT 4/13: Sorry - The link to Rick Oleson's site,
and Henry Fisher's elegant solution, is dead,
but you can Google it for the link to the archived version.

 

[newspaperguy]

Rick Oleson's site can now be found on Archive.IS

Just Google his name.

I edited the OP.

 

[Highway 61]

Rick's website is still there and hasn't changed location :

http://rick_oleson.tripod.com/

Yet the home-made take-up spool article link (which pointed towards someone else's website, that wasn't an article written by Rick) might have been removed or moved.

Anyway the same process is shown here with more clarity :

http://elekm.net/zeiss-ikon/repair/spool.html

 

[newspaperguy]

Actually, it is still out there on the web, but you have to specify 'archive.'

Try this on Google: archive rick oleson kiev spools

You will find the same info on the APUG site, along with a note from Henry Fisher.

 

[newspaperguy]

Here's another way to find the solution;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contax_II

Scroll down and click on

Make a takeup spool for your Contax or Kiev (by Henry Fisher)

😀 Hey, that link works! Just click on it.

 

[newspaperguy]

Here's my modification to Henry Fisher's KIEV spool...

add a second metal cassette end to the bottom of Henry's elegant spool.

Just peen the opening a tad so that the cap grips the short stub of the spool.

Makes that smooth take up even smoother... and the spool never falls out.

 

[Grytpype]

If you don't want to make your own just get an Exa spool, which are quite common on eBay. They have the larger lower flange like the Kiev/Contax type and are a superior design all round.

You need the green-ended spool from a lever-wind Exa (1a, II, IIa, IIb, IIc, or 500). The blue-ended or all-black spools from an Exakta or knob-wind Exa are designed to take up clockwise rather than anti-clockwise, so the spring strip that hold the end of the film is attached the wrong way round.

 

[fanshaw]

You can use the spool from a 35 mm cassette, without modification, using tape to fix the film to the spool.