When I was spooling my own 35mm the crimped ends of the Kodak canisters
were very difficult to remove, though earlier Kodak canisters were made
differently and easily reusable, I had a couple. Ilford canisters were
very easy to re use and seemed to be made for that from the start.
On 7/20/2013 5:57 PM, Mark C wrote:
On 7/20/2013 11:18 AM, John Sessoms wrote:
I seem to have inherited the pack-rat gene as a dominant from both
parents ...
Then you are probably the right person to ask this question - can you
re-use commercial film canisters? I am somewhat embarrassed to admit
this in a public forum but I just developed 2 rolls of Pro-Max 100.
Just for the fun of it I tried popping the end of each canister off
with just my fingers, no can opener. They came off easily and after
the film was spooled I put the canister, center spool and ends back
together. Both of them look perfectly serviceable. Did you ever try
re-using the actual canister? I don't think this would work with
Kodak or Fuji canisters - the end caps on those seem to be held on
tight and a can opener is needed to get them off - but who knows about
other brands, like UltraFine and Adox etc...
If I can reuse the canisters, which normally sell for about $1 each,
then the $1.75 per roll I paid for the Pro Max was not a terribly bad
deal.
Mark
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