J and C did this. They shaved the diameter and the thickness of 120 spools with the original film still on them. This created a bit of an inward bend on the flanges. They worked fine initially, but would jam up the camera when used for take up. I kept a few old metal 620 spools on hand for take-up and trashed the shaved spools once they were empty.
graywolf wrote: > Seems like there would be enough of a market to make it worthwhile tooling up > to produce a few thousand of the things. However at least one company > produces 620 by turning down the spool flanges on 120 film. That seems to be > the main difference although I believe 120 spools are a bit shorter than than > 620 spools as well. > > graywolf > http://www.graywolfphoto.com > http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf > "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" > ----------------------------------- > > > P. J. Alling wrote: > >> As some of you may know, I enabled myself with a Kodak Medalist II some >> time ago, which has a magnificent 100mm f3.5 lens. Unfortunatly this >> camera takes 620 size film. Fortunatly 120 film can be re-rolled onto >> 620 spools and it works just fine. However I'm on the lookout for 620 >> film spools to have a reasonable supply on hand ready to go. Look at >> the price for EMPTY spools in this auction. >> >> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBUAA:US:11&Item=170133849423 >> >> > > -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
