sticky plastic spiral

[Neil Grant]

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

 

[John Bragg]

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

First try a toothbrush and hot water.

 

[AgX]

Otherwise wash in alkali solution, to soften gelatin residues.

 

[Donald Qualls]

@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.

 

[Greg Heath]

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

91% rubbing alcohol. Works like a charm

 

[freecitizen]

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

 

[R.Gould]

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

 

[ColdEye]

The 91% alcohol removed my problems.

 

[grat]

The 91% alcohol removed my problems.

Did it remove them, or did you just not care about them for awhile?

 

[R.Gould]

The 91% alcohol removed my problems.

Waste of good alcohol,pencil's work out better

 

[ColdEye]

Waste of good alcohol,pencil's work out better

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.

 

[ColdEye]

Did it remove them, or did you just not care about them for awhile?

A mix of both. Key is to not use any chaser.

 

[R.Gould]

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.

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