Mistake while bulk loading film

garpet said:

Yea, this. except what happened was I loaded it the correct way, then remembered being told that the emulsion was the 'stickier' side of the film and after lightly feeling the end of the roll and thinking I had loaded it in backwards the first time, flipped it

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I'm 68. I have some loss of feeling in my hands and feet. I've come to rely on a toy infrared "binocular looking" viewer. I use it anytime I'm dealing with film in the dark. Loading reels, putting a bulk roll in a loader.

Marvelous but very limited device. The lab folks have these on hand if needed. Absolutely harmless to everything but infrared film.

Keep in mind for when you get old. And senile like me!

garpet said:

Update: turns out I also put the spindles into the cassettes upside down, which means that instead of respelling all the rolls I can just flip the spindles! turns out two wrongs make half a wrong

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See my post #6
But don't worry, what you did is easy to do. Bulk loading film is a bit mind numbing.
It helps to have at hand for reference a correctly loaded cassette with leader protruding the right way.

garpet said:

Yea, this. except what happened was I loaded it the correct way, then remembered being told that the emulsion was the 'stickier' side of the film and after lightly feeling the end of the roll and thinking I had loaded it in backwards the first time, flipped it

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An error that you will never repeat.

Sirius Glass said:

An error that you will never repeat.

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for sure!