8mm Forum: 1600ft Supaspool container/Boxes

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Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on July 07, 2013, 02:10 PM:

I have two of these spools at present but have only recently put a movie on one so i have'nt up until now tried fitting one into a 1200ft card box, unfortunatly there a wee bit too big, does anyone have either a box or plastic can that these will fit into? [Wink]

Posted by Akshay Nanjangud (Member # 2828) on July 07, 2013, 02:55 PM:

I was told these fit into the 1200' 16mm cans. Not so?

Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on July 07, 2013, 04:04 PM:

i thought that to, these are blue reels. i.ll upload an image tomorrow, ive tried fitting them into the elmo 1200 box and also the derann 1200ft white boxes, its weird because theydo fit perfectly onto the elmo st 1200 hd. [Confused]

Posted by Lars-Goran Ahlm (Member # 1908) on July 07, 2013, 04:23 PM:

They fit in the Grasso black plastic 1200 cans.
I have two in those cans. (one in each)

And no, I have none to spare.

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on July 08, 2013, 03:29 AM:

The Supaspools should be the same size Tom as the 1200'.

Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on July 08, 2013, 04:54 AM:

Why not fit the two spools into one 1600' 16mm can?

Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on July 09, 2013, 07:39 AM:

Now this is a puzzler, although the spools i have are menat to be 1600ft spools they arnt the official supaspools i thinks,
Here are a couple of pics, i have two, one for the film which is a 4 x 400 and fits perfectly as it should but doesnt fit into any 1200ft card boxes, however the weird thing is the other reel which should be identicle does fit in the box but is shy of around 20-30ft in size to hold the film.

Here is the film all snug on the spool and as you can see is a tiny bit too big for the box,,

Here is my other spool which is sat on top, you can make out the outer rim size difference,

The markings on the spool are
TAYLOREEL COMPANY
155,Murry Street
Rochester
NY 14606.
Its odd to see two reels the same but one made slightly too small, after all, the point is to be able to fit 1600 ft of film and also to fit in the 1200 standard size box. [Confused]

Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on July 10, 2013, 02:38 AM:

Some years ago Tony Churcher in the UK produced some spools which he called SupaSpools. They had the same overall size of an Elmo 1200' spool but because they had a small centre it was said they would hold 1600' of film.

Tony was a regular visitor to the Tadleigh Film Convention and I bought a couple of spools from him. However, they were very heavy, even without any film, I'm not sure of the metal used but they were actually bolted together.

I tried them on my Elmo ST1200 but they failed to take up the whole full spool, it just slowed down and then stopped. I complained to Tony who said that perhaps a belt needed renewing.

I finally sold them, and then at Ealing bought a few of the proper Elmo 1200' alloy spools and they are still performing well to this day.

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on July 10, 2013, 04:12 AM:

I have quite a few of Tony's spools Maurice, and find them invaluable for remounting "epics", leaving in the original intermission, and especially for 'scope features, leaving minimum reel changes.I'll check, but I think they're the same diameter as
Elmo.

Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on July 10, 2013, 06:29 AM:

Tony said that the spools were the same size.

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on July 11, 2013, 01:15 PM:

I was offering the thing that Tom is looking now a couple weeks ago:

Black Plastic Can for Supaspool 1600'

However my things have been shipped to Indonesia. So Tom, if you are interested to buy, you need to wait for around 40 days from now.

cheers,

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