At 12:23 PM 1/13/2004 +1100, you wrote:
>Spent years teaching High School kids to use Patersons (not my
>choice) - eventually found the trick. They suggest cutting the
>corners off the lead - I leave the tongue out and actually round off
>the end and cut a very thin 1mm taper on the tip for about 2-3mm (not
>too much or it will jump the rails). I found that having done that I
>could feed a 24exp film in just by pushing it so long as the reel is
>perfectly dry, without the need for the steel balls. I became a
>Paterson convert.
Yep. That's the trick I learned almost 30 years ago. Works beautifully.
Garth
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