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Re: Mounts


  • From: P3D Paul Talbot <ptww@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: Mounts
  • Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 01:01:17 -0700

DrT enumerated some requirements for the RBT jig/Spicer mount routine:
> >2. Be capable to transfer the chips from the RBT to the
> >   Spicer mount.

And David Kesner countered:
> 
> This is easy, but the part that takes a few rolls to master. You
> simply lay the RBT on the Spicer, align to a straight edge and tape
> down. [snip]

> I think anyone with a
> little manual dexterity can master the RBT - Spicer mount system.
> Several people have emailed me off line for detailed instructions.
> Perhaps they can tells us all how easy or hard they found it to be.

I didn't e-mail Dave for instructions (they are on the Web, BTW,
at http://www.werple.net.au/~kiewavly/RBTjig1.html ), but I'll
comment anyway, as I have been trying to get the hang of this
mounting procedure.  For several reasons it has been anything
but "easy" for me to master.  A few weeks ago I mounted one test
slide this way.  I probably spent an hour on it.  Today I finally
got an old roll cut for mounting and had my second go at the
RBT/Spicer method.

Manual dexterity, admittedly, is not my forte.  But for me there
were a host of problems to overcome before even reaching the point
where the manual dexterity became an issue.  The first problem was
the mental gymnastics required.  Having absolutely zero capability
to process spatial relationship problems, just about all my neurons
overheated and shut down when I tried to get the relationship between
the RBT, the Spicer, and the chips just right.  The problem is that
there are, seemingly, a dozen permutations of ways in which you can
arrange the chips on the RBT, and end up with them placed wrongly
on the Spicer mounts.  They'll come out pseudo, backwards, upside
down or some combination of all three.  BTW, I was not using the
exact same orientation recommendation on Spicer's web site.  I've
read (on P3D, I think) that it is better to put chips in cardboard
mounts such that the taped open edge is at the bottom when used in
the viewer, so as to leave the smooth folded edge at the bottom when
the slide is projected.

Second, the transfer process, for me, has so far been virtually
impossible to execute without some injury to the perfect alignment
assured by the RBTs.

I'm also having trouble with minor side-to-side differences
after the transfer.  In some cases, even though the slide
was fine when previewed in the RBT, when it got to the Spicer
the frame line and either some blank space or part of the
next image showed through the window.

I "finished" three slides today and quit due to lack of time and
depletion of patience while struggling mightily with the fourth
one, after the third one had gone "relatively" smoothly.  Let's
see, at this rate, using up my remaining 696 Spicer 35mm mounts
will take.....forget it, I'm not even going to try that one!  ;)

I will readily admit that, were a scientific test to be done,
I'd probably fail to crack the 1 percentile in aptitude for
this mounting method.  So I am sure most readers will get far
more mileage.  But I don't think everyone should assume they
can master this as readily as David did.

Paul Talbot, (aka King Klutz)


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