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Response to Can I Bulk Load with used film canisters?

from Pete Andrews (p.l.andrews@bham.ac.uk)
I hardly use anything else but bulk film in 35mm, and I'm still in mourning for the passing of the Ilford 'roll top' canister. (Take both ends off, and you could brush the felt trap out to clean it.)
All is not lost. I've discovered that a company is still selling them as re-useable cassettes, complete with Dx coding label in 100, 200, and 400 ISO. So I've stocked up with a few.
Failing that, if you own a Nikon F, or F2, then the Nikon reloadable cassettes are excellent, even if they are a bit expensive, provided you have the correct design of bulk loader to operate the mechanism.

Beware of the cheap plastic reloadable cassettes that are sold in bags of 5 or 6. Some of them don't have a very good light-trap, and can come undone very easily. You need to look at the quality of the plastic, and if they're flimsy and the light trap is buckled, leave them alone.
As for the current glued or crimped commercial cassettes: No, you can't re-use them.

(posted 8718 days ago)

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