Anyone made a 600ft'er out of a 400ft reel?

[Stuart Budd]

Just received Sherlock Holmes on a 600ft reel. Didn't think too much about it till I came to give it a clean on my viewer/editor. Looked around and realised I had no 600ft spools!

At work at the min thinking about making one by just extending a 400ft with card or such like as a temp takeup spool.

I have bought another 600ft just incase. Waiting on it's arrival.

[Graham Sinden]

A friend of mine used to do that sometimes back in the day, even making a 1200ft reel using a 400ft reel and cutting an LP vinyl record to go around the outer and sticking it with thick paper tape. I still have it somewhere.

[Stuart Budd]

Wish I kept my record collection now! Certainly be a good use of some of the more questionable titles I had.

[Stuart Budd]

Ummm! Just made a 600ft spool out of an old Paterson 400ft that had split into it's two halfs. Tried Super Glue to stick it back together. It wasn't having any of it. Used the last of my E6000 tube. Did the trick. The Paterson has slightly sloped tops to guide the film in. I used a A4 laminater to build up the sides. Cleaned my Sherlock Holmes The Case of The Haunted Gainsborough on 8mm Sound only to reslise two things. My Eumigs don't natively support 600ft and nor do they accept 8mm spools on the takeup side!
A quick test and it's a good sound and picture. There is a splice around the 400ft mark so I think it'll be a two parter soon.

Darn those 600ft'ers

[Osi Osgood]

What a novel idea! Great for storing that extra feature just lying around!