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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God

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From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003

posted December 09, 2007 11:40 PM

Hi all,

Could you explain why some of my plastic on clamshell case got wrinkled?

How can I avoid this.

BAsed on my experience, it DID NOT happen to all my Ken's but it happened to some films from German companies such as UFA.

I don't know if this because of the plastic type they used. But I have multi reels from UFA. One case is getting wrinkled but the others are not. So my assumption is that their plastic type is the same.

So I wonder why when they were stred at the same place, same humidity, same temperatur, one got wrinkled.

When it wringkled, the artworks look bad.

(ps: I noticed that Piccolo's clamshell did not expreince this)

thanks,

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Winbert

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Andreas Eggeling
Master Film Handler

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posted December 13, 2007 05:21 PM

[ August 07, 2008, 01:22 AM: Message edited by: Andreas Eggeling ]

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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God

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From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003

posted December 13, 2007 10:38 PM

Thanks Andreas...

Ao cheap plastic he! [Mad]

I like Piccolo's plastic it's very straight and strong!. In fact we have a feeling that the picture is laminated by the plastic.

cheers,

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Winbert

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Andreas Eggeling
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posted December 14, 2007 05:23 AM

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Stuart Fyvie
Film Handler

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From: Amersham
Registered: Jun 2003

posted December 16, 2007 05:01 AM

Winbert, try a hair dryer on the wrinkled plastic. This will soften and smooth the
bumps out. Tried this years ago on my ken 400 footers.

Stuart

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