8mm Forum: How can we avoid clamshell become wringkled (esp. those from UFA)

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Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on 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,

Posted by Andreas Eggeling (Member # 105) on December 13, 2007, 05:21 PM:

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

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on 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,

Posted by Andreas Eggeling (Member # 105) on December 14, 2007, 05:23 AM:

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

Posted by Stuart Fyvie (Member # 38) on 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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