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From: kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Minox problem
Message-ID: <410@tymix.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-May-85 13:14:20 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  7 13:14:20 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 17-May-85 00:19:08 EDT
Organization: Tymnet Inc., Cupertino CA
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I am having a jamming problem with my Minox 35GT and wonder whether anyone
else out there has encountered the same problem and found a solution.
Specifically, it happens with Ilford XP1 film.  The last three times I used
the camera, about halfway through the roll of film it became impossible to
wind further.  In fact, on one occasion, I actually tore the sprocket
holes.

Repair people find nothing wrong with the camera, and, of course, it passes
the same test with me.  You can put a roll of film in it and wind it
through ok.  The problem arises when it sits for a couple of weeks.  

Now, this morning, on reloading the camera, I noticed that the film leader
had a definite wrinkle in it, and was hard to pull through the cassette.
Apparently the film stock Ilford uses for XP1 will take a permanent set where
it passes through the lip, if it is allowed to sit there for a while.
And, of course, the Minox has only one sprocket instead of the two that
larger cameras have, and is therefore less able to cope with a stiff
cassette.  The second thing I noticed is that the lip of the Ilford
cassette is at a rather different angle from those of other companies: the
film in passing through the lip wants to head more toward the spindle than
toward the periphery of the spool.

I wonder if the problem were to go away were I to by the film in bulk and
load it into a different style of cassette, for example, a Kodak one.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.  This has been so distressing that I
was on the verge yesterday of mail ordering another Minox in the hope that
a new specimen would behave better, but fortunately rationality prevailed
and I didn't.
-- 
Herb Kanner
Tymnet, Inc.