sticky plastic spiral

Neil Grant

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...I've got a Jobo spiral that is becoming sticky (it's not been soaked in wetting agent!). Is there an easy remedy?
 

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Otherwise wash in alkali solution, to soften gelatin residues.
 

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@John Bragg and @AgX gave you the solutions I was going to suggest. Sodium carbonate solution, as hot as your hands can take, and scrub with a toothbrush. Dawn Dish soap, the kind for hand washing your dishes, is a good alternative to the sodium carbonate, because it cuts through oils and food residue (and gelatin is, chemically, food residue) and then rinses away cleanly.
 

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When you are sure it is clean …. heat it up with a hairdryer immediately before loading the film. It makes the plastic " slippier " .
 

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Simple answer to sticky plastic reel's, take a lead pencil,run the pencil around the groves, works a treat every time, Ihave been doimg this for 50 years, I never scrub a reel with a tooth brush, never have, I soak my reels in wetting agent, never soak them in anything, all I have ever done is use the pencil, and I can't remember the last time I had a film stick, either 120 or 35mm, average time to ;load reel around 45 seconds,try it
 

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R.Gould said:
Waste of good alcohol,pencil's work out better
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You dont dump the whole bottle, I use less than 50ml and mix it with hot water when I clean em twice a month. Tried the pencil trick, now that was a waste of graphite.
 

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ColdEye said:
You dont dump the whole bottle, I use less than 50ml and mix it with hot water when I clean em twice a month. Tried the pencil trick, now that was a waste of graphite.
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Pencil works for me and has worked for 50 years or more, and as a non drinker I meant that alcohal is better used in hand sanitiser these days, but sharp pencil in the groves of any plastic reel and never had a stuck film apart from once 50 years ago, when a photographer showed me how to use the pencil, not one stuck film since
 
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