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Topic: FilmGuard to protect S.8 film
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Bill Brandenstein
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1632
From: California
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted September 11, 2013 12:10 PM
quote: Being an 8mm collector, yes you CAN get all of the benefits, but what people tend to do is they apply it FAR too liberally, like you would with normal cleaners (such as trichlourethane based)...
Thanks for your posts in this thread, Brad, which I've also found helpful.
Without a Kelmar or Film-O-Clean, I think the trick is being able to tell when there's actually enough going onto the film. When you wet that thick cloth and get started, it's really obvious that the film is being wetted until you get further into the reel. Methinks the film is still getting an adequate amount of solution even for a while after it becomes less than wet-looking.
On a slightly different tact, anyone have any information about sealing films treated with FilmGuard or FilmRenew with a Kodak/FPC molecular sieve? Will the remaining vapors from the solvent wipe out any benefit from the sieve, or are the vapors inert to the ingredients of silica, sodium oxide, aluminum oxide, and magnesium oxide (that data is available at this link)?
That would be pretty sweet if the treatment didn't interfere with the absorbtion of acetic acid.
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Jon Byler
Film Handler
Posts: 45
From: Auburn, AL, USA
Registered: Sep 2013
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posted September 27, 2013 12:11 AM
I know it's probably not the recommended application method, but I managed to do just fine running my film from spool to spool directly with super 8 applying it with a couple pieces of the cleaning pad for a 35mm machine cut into squares, lightly saturated with film guard, and folded over the film as it passed from reel to reel without being feed through the rest of the projector. as if one were rewinding, but instead running it from the film spool directly to the takeup spool.
I made it a little too wet on purpose the first time through, and didn't use much pressure, then rewound the film and used the pad folded the other way on the way back through. I was able to move the pad around and use different parts of it, so any dirt buildup wouldn't be dragged across the whole film.
Prints I tried this on looked much better than before, and the mechanism in the projector is staying much cleaner than before, with almost no shedding in the gate or elsewhere. I'd love to get one of those automatic lubricators that are on offer, but it's out of the budget at the moment.
I think one should be careful doing this by hand, but it isn't rocket science to apply it either. Even when I overdid it a bit, i didn't notice streaking or spotting on projection. good stuff!
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