Jobo 2502 reel - odd spur, normal?

[richyd]

I always had trouble loading two rolls of 120 onto my 2502 reel, the first roll never going quite far enough in, something stopping it. I just ended up using 1502 reels. I hadn't done any multi-processing for a while and just tried again with the 2502 reel forgetting my past experience and of course the same thing happened. So I checked the reel and notice a strange spur of plastic in one of the channels before the end of the inner course. Is this a left over spur that should have been removed at the factory and is preventing the roll from loading to the end?

 

[Alan9940]

That spur is supposed to be there. My guess it that it prevents the film from spooling off into the inner core, if you kept feeding it on. I've loaded two rolls on 2502 reels for years without issue. Do you have a couple of waste rolls you could practice with? My biggest issue early on was determining when the first roll was beyond the red plastic thingy. But, practice in the light, then in the dark sorted that out.

 

[Lachlan Young]

That spur is supposed to be there. My guess it that it prevents the film from spooling off into the inner core, if you kept feeding it on. I've loaded two rolls on 2502 reels for years without issue. Do you have a couple of waste rolls you could practice with? My biggest issue early on was determining when the first roll was beyond the red plastic thingy. But, practice in the light, then in the dark sorted that out.

The trick is to use the recesses on the sides to feel if the film has reached the innermost part of the spiral - it's not immediately obvious what the recesses are for, but it gives a very positive identification of whether the inner film has passed the anti-overlap peg.

 

[richyd]

Thanks for the replies. I've got a roll I used for tests somewhere so if I can find that will test out in the light. The weird thing is by looking at the reel it seems that spur will stop the film before the dead end, closed channel at the very end of the spiral. When I load the roll as far is it can go in the dark it still feels as though the end of the film has not gone past the red clip.