Topic: Respooling 400ft of film into 35mm cans?

[Kayos]

I've found a decent supply of Kodak short ends, ok it's not quite 400ft (yet) but there's  150 ish on the one I've ordered,
Will this fit into a std bulk film loader or do I need to respool it onto a smaller spool before I put it into the 35mm canisters?

[Bryan]

A 400' film spool is usually about 7 inches (17.8cm) diameter. 

[SLVR]

I saw a neat technique today on RFF that I sent to hungrymike. This might be able to help you out!

http://rangefinderforum.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2473329&postcount=1650

[Francois]

I would find a way to put a crank on the empty spool... it would go faster.

[Kayos]

That looks great, thanks SLVR

Anyone got any empty 100ft cans and cores? I should of given it more thought before I ordered it, at least I can practice ramjet removal on the spare 50 foot

[Bryan]

A pair of 35mm rewinds would make short work of it.

[jharr]

I have a piece if thick string that it's cut to the length of 12 35mm exposures. I pull the film off the spool and measure 1, 2 or 3 lengths depending on what I need. Then I wind it into a canister by hand. It takes about the same amount of time as using a daylight loader. All done in a dark room of course.

[jojonas~]

saw this is the polypan f group on flickr. it was creating for dividing those big rolls into 30,5 meter rolls for dayloaders. should work for 135 canister too. I think I've seen Adox use something similar for their test rolls.


album with more images: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nikon_man2011/sets/72157651775818171

[jojonas~]

ohyeah, here's the one from ADOX

Manual 35mm filmspooling line at ADOX Fotowerke, Berlin