Arjay
Time Traveller
I am practising to load film into my AP spirals (I use these spirals in a Paterson Universal tank) to prepare for my first home-souped BW film. The AP spirals' wide guiding shoulders at the loading slot make it very easy to load the film.
HOWEVER, I can't seem to find the right way to remove the film from the spiral after processing. Up to now, the only solution I found was to disengage the two spiral halves, which would very probably cause the film to be severely scratched as it would roll up into a tight spool around the spiral's spindle.
The Paterson tank's instructions show a neat way to push the film out of the spiral grooves where the locking balls are, and then pulling it out as the spiral would rotate in one of my hands. With the AP spirals however, this isn't feasible because of the wide guiding shoulders that effectively make it impossible to simply pull the film out of the rotating spiral.
Unfortunately, the AP spirals come without operating instructions.
Can anybody please give me a hint of how I could remove a film from the spiral without risking lots of scratches?
HOWEVER, I can't seem to find the right way to remove the film from the spiral after processing. Up to now, the only solution I found was to disengage the two spiral halves, which would very probably cause the film to be severely scratched as it would roll up into a tight spool around the spiral's spindle.
The Paterson tank's instructions show a neat way to push the film out of the spiral grooves where the locking balls are, and then pulling it out as the spiral would rotate in one of my hands. With the AP spirals however, this isn't feasible because of the wide guiding shoulders that effectively make it impossible to simply pull the film out of the rotating spiral.
Unfortunately, the AP spirals come without operating instructions.
Can anybody please give me a hint of how I could remove a film from the spiral without risking lots of scratches?
photokalia
Established
I disengage the 2 halves. If you do it carefully, the film should still be sitting in their tracks. I then gingerly grab one end and with a flourish pull the entire roll free so it doesn't scratch against anything on the way out. So far I've done over 80 rolls this way and it seems to work for me.