Ah, Dave.
This was not the first time for me. But it has been a long while. I think have used about every type of developing tank made. But that film is new to me. I believe now, that Paul hit the nail on the head the Kodak Day-Load tank just will not work with very thin film. Remember I had tried it with an unexposed roll of Fuji 100 just to see if I remembered how to load it. that worked all right. But when I tried loading the J&C Classic I had problems. Of course the real problem was my trying to use muscle instead of going and getting the changing bag...
Brute force should be the last resort, not the first (grin).
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I share your pain Tom.
When i took the darkroom class in 2002/3 i was unsure how my first roll would go so i just shot some back yard stuff. Well,only 1 of the 8 people managed to load and proccess correctly that day.(not me BTW) Glad i did not do my good roll until class number 3.
Hope you can redo some of the ones you wanted to keep.
Dave Brooks
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!
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