Hi Graywolf, Sad to hear about your film accident. Don't know if this helps in your search for a manual for the Day-Load tank, but here's one thing you can do to avoid some of the auction stuff:
Try this syntax in your google search: Kodak day load tank manual -site:ebay.com -site:ebay.ca You can include as many sites as you want in the exlusion list. Jostein Quoting Graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well I finished that first roll of Classic Pan 400 35mm B&W from J&C Photo > that > I had in the camera yesterday. It has been years since I have developed any > 35mm. I had a choice of an old stainless steel reel and tank, or a Koday > Day-Load Tank that I had bought used a few years ago an never gotten around > to > trying out. > > Not wanting to wait until after dark, I decided to use the Day-Load Tank. It > > having been a long long time since I had used one of those, I practiced > loading > an unexposed roll of film in it. No problem. So I put the exposed film in and > it > wound a couple of turns and locked up. I tried this and that, and then heard > the > film tear. Crap! I open it up and the film comes out in a knoted up mess. > Double > crap! > > So, what was on this roll of film? Oh some test shots. The first snow a > couple > of weeks ago. A tracked vehicle that I could not identify, so took some > pictures > of. And the "Christmas Ghost Town of Boone" photos I took yesterday. > > The test shots can be redone. The snow will most likely happen again. The > vehicle belonged to an out of town construction company, and I will probably > > never see one like it again. Next Christmas is only a year away; of course > things may change a lot by then. > > I guess all that just goes to show that you should never experiment with > important photos. > > The other roll of Classic Pan 400 gets nothing but test shots on it and it > gets > developed in the stainless steel reel (of course I haven't used one of those > in > decades either). So maybe I can find out is I like this cheap film or not. > One > thing I can already tell is the film base is very thin and not very strong at > all. > > I had tried to find a copy of the instrstuction manual for the Day-Load Tank, > > but all I could come up with are months old eBay listings. Because of that I > was > already angery when I started, which did not help (grin). I can think of > nothing more useless than an expired auction listing. Besides that the > auctions > all have their own search engines. Does anyone know of a way to make internet > > search engines ignor eBay and other auction listings? > > I can remember when an internet search got you something besides "buy > something" > ads. Must be getting old. > > > -- > > graywolf > http://www.graywolfphoto.com > "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" > ----------------------------------- > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.5 - Release Date: 12/26/2004 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
