Hewes SS 120 reels for Jobo 2500

[davidlei]

Hello!

I am having a lot of difficulty with these reels. Aside from being very difficult to load, the tail end / outer end keeps slipping off sometime in the development process on my Jobo CPP3, causing kinks. I've used Hewes SS 120 reels for ordinary daylight tanks without this problem but just started trying this new combination recently. Note that I have three reels and have had this problem every single time loading film so far (4 times). I am running the CPP3 at standard rotation speed. Any suggestions? This is driving me nuts. The only tip I could find online was possible to fold the end over so it's stiffer.

-David

 

[CatLABS]

The simplest solution would be to use 2502 plastic reels.

 

[JOR]

Loading stanless spirals

I separate the whole film from the backing paper and peel off the tape, so that the part of the film with the least curl is first under the clip and the part with the most curl is on the outside. This assumes that the film is processed shortly after exposure. Your suggestion of creasing the outermost part is probably wise but I processed hundreds of films in SS spirals without problems in SmartLab, where the spirals were on a shaft.