We had a 100% success rate in processing film in my Photo I class earlier this week:
Washed tanks after processing.
Film drying!
But one strange thing happened. Most of our white reels have the small "teeth" which are tricky to load. I have 2 reels from my personal stash that I brought in years ago that have the big "teeth" that are easier to load (and easier to keep the film from jumping off the reel as you're loading). One of my students was trying some practice film with one of my reels, and suddenly, it stopped pulling up the film. We noticed the little ball bearing had fallen out. I gave him a standard "smaller tooth" reel, and we kept working.
After they were done processing, I notice what had happened... Normally, the side of the reel looks like this, with a little white "cap" holding in the ball bearing:
But the white cap had fallen off on the other side:
Luckily, I was able to find the cap...
... but not the ball bearing. I might harvest a ball bearing from a different reel and see if I can super glue the cap back on. We'll see if that MacGyver fix will work!
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