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Alan Rik
Film God

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From: New York City, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted September 24, 2005 08:14 AM

I was watching "Toy Story" mounted on 2x800ft reels, Bonums and when I went to use the fast rewind on the GS I noticed that after about 350ft the wind was uneven. Consequently when the film was finally rewound one side of the reel was sticking out and was very loose! So I rewound it again and noticed that the Bonum reel had a tendency to actually flare out as it got to the outer edges of the reel thus making a very loose and unevenly packed reel. Has this happened to any of you out there? It has only happened with this Bonum Reel. Never to any of the other reels I have. I need to replace it so...who make a good non flexing 800fter?

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Jan Bister
Darth 8mm

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From: Ohio, USA
Registered: Jan 2005

posted September 24, 2005 12:11 PM

Odd... As these Bonum reels are actually made of two halves glued together at the core, could it be that yours is simply beginning to come apart? If you take that reel (without film) and press the sides together at the center, do you notice any looseness?

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Tom Photiou
Film God

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From: Plymouth U.K
Registered: Dec 2003

posted September 24, 2005 02:09 PM

Its usually the cheap crabby spools that do that caused by a poor quality at the core. Bonum spools are normally pretty good, sometimes when you put the film into the slit it may catch badly or the film may crease causing a similar problem. But as yet this has not happened to me with one of these spools. [Wink]

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Joe Taffis
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: United States
Registered: Jun 2003

posted September 24, 2005 05:20 PM

Never had that problem over the last 30 years with either Bonum 600' or 800 footers...you got a bad reel there buddy.

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Alan Rik
Film God

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From: New York City, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted September 25, 2005 12:38 AM

Yeah.. I thought I had a bad reel. When I look at it straight down the center it looks like it is getting wider as it gets nearer to the edge. I didn't think it was a problem till the end of the wind and it looked like the Hunchback of Super 8 Dame!

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