If you use a certain film cassette opener, it won't crimp the end cap. I'm not sure how many times you can reuse it, though. Look here:
http://www.adorama.com/KRCO.html Jeffery On Jul 20, 2013, at 4:57 PM, Mark C <pdml-m...@charter.net> 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 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
