Re: I'm going Sputnik shopping

[Robert Thorpe <thorpe@xxxxxxxx>]

Stephen Kearney wrote:
> 
> The other thing to avoid is getting the spring steel tensioner thingy
> trapped behind the film roll.  You have to lift it out a little with your
> finger as you put in the film.

I suspect that this is the root of everyone's stiff winding problems.
The 
intuitive way to load the film is 50% wrong. On the "source" spool of 
film (right side when you look down from the top with the camera
pointing
forward) you should have the spring on the outside of the spool. On the 
"takeup" (left side) the spring should be on the inside. See
illustration at:

     http://www.skep.com/3D/SputnikTakeup.gif

I had the devil's own time winding my first roll of film, I was worried
it
would break. The second roll I pulled the source spring out before I put 
the film in and it worked just peachy. Keep the takeup spring on the
inside.

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Robert Thorpe
Cedar Rapids, IA
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