Help needed -- Arista's 35 mm plastic or Metal reloadable cartridges

[Pioneer]

The more modern plastic Watsons came with a 2 mm shim you removed for FILCA or fitted for IXMOO, most of mine don't have the spacer and I've not had any problems with FILCAs or IXMOO.
I try the bakalite Watson next time I find it.

I've been using my Aldens. I pulled a Watson out, loaded some bulk TMAX, and tried it with a FILCA. It worked. Obviously this will become my FILCA loader from now on.

Thanks a bunch for the heads up.

Although it is a plastic one, mine didn't appear to have any spacers in it that could be removed. Maybe it was removed sometime in the past. Most of my bulk loaders are yard sale finds.

 

[pbo]

The more modern plastic Watsons came with a 2 mm shim you removed for FILCA or fitted for IXMOO, most of mine don't have the spacer and I've not had any problems with FILCAs or IXMOO.

So that's what that shim is! On mine it keeps falling out and when loading normal cartridges without that shim, it's really hard to wind film into the cartridge.

Although it is a plastic one, mine didn't appear to have any spacers in it that could be removed. Maybe it was removed sometime in the past. Most of my bulk loaders are yard sale finds.

Where your crank goes into the loader, is there a gray piece of plastic, sort of triangular/wedge shaped? That should be the one

 

[Xmas]

So that's what that shim is! On mine it keeps falling out and when loading normal cartridges without that shim, it's really hard to wind film into the cartridge.



Where your crank goes into the loader, is there a gray piece of plastic, sort of triangular/wedge shaped? That should be the one

You only need to remove it for FILCAs.
Try a few small pieces of blue tac

 

[MartinP]

I have a large number of cartridges that were originally branded Konica (I assume it was Fuji or Ferrania film but that is nothing more than a guess) and they have given me zero problems.

Konica was a trading name of Konishiroku. They were selling photographic materials since 1873 - they started before Kodak. They even made the colour-print C41 film re-badged by Ilford around thirty years ago. They merged with Minolta eventually and were then taken over by Sony.