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Old 17th June 2021, 05:53 PM
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Default Reloadable 35mm film Cassettes. Shirley Wellard.

Just uploaded scans of the Shirley Wellard Cassette and Winder Manuals. Look in Camera Accessory Manuals heading.

I have just had another new plastic cassette unfurl the velvet light trap material, right into the taking frame.

I bought half a dozen from one of our sponsors about a year ago and not had much joy with them. All the plastics are consigned to the bin now,along with another film.

The Wellard cassettes take a bit of figuring out, but once you grasp what is happening they should give no problems.
No velvet light traps to go wrong but you must concentrate when you rewind and remove the exposed film.

So back to the tried and true for me.

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Old 17th June 2021, 06:42 PM
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Those things are an engineering marvel,Nat, having seen from the Roger and Frances Photography site what is inside each one.

Meant to last a lifetime and every reason to believe they do just that


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Old 17th June 2021, 07:17 PM
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I'd be rather careful, Nat. The one I bought a few years ago has never been satisfactory. When you press down the rewind knob in order to open or shut the cassette in the camera, you are depressing a spring-loaded plate at the "base" of the cassette. That in turn should allow it to engage or disengage the opening mechanism. These cassetes are all old: in mine, the spring and also the plate engagement are both worn, making the mechanism quite unpredictable.

As a consequence, they should be bought only from a reliable dealer and after inspection - never from eBay, whatever the seller's claims about condition. The fault I describe would not find a repairer.
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Old 18th June 2021, 09:35 AM
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As a regular user of bulk film this loader is of great interest to me. I have used old Leica N cassettes (I always thought, until relatively recently, they were called Z cassettes) and now use reloadable plastic cassettes but there is the risk of scratching film and wearing of the felt light proofing so that loading the camera in daylight is a bit of a no-no. I have had problems with 'Barfen' plastic cassettes jamming in the loader and about which I posted on FADU some time back.

http://www.film-and-darkroom-user.or...rfen%27&page=3

http://www.film-and-darkroom-user.or...t=%27Barfen%27

http://www.film-and-darkroom-user.or...t=%27Barfen%27

Earliest of these is from 2014......How time flies!!

I will have a search and keep my eyes open for these Shirley Wellard cassettes and loader.

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Old 18th June 2021, 12:32 PM
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I was quite tickled to click on the first link of MikeHeller s response and find a post of mine with pictures of a cassette winder I made a short while back.
The one mounted on a trimmed down G clamp.

It is very simple to use and make if you have access to a lathe, but I have seen a few vintage models on the bay for sale.

The first one I made many moons ago was from bits of Meccano and Meccano gears.
Previously I used to get by, winding in the film using a piece of wooden dowel with a slot cut into it to fit the film spool.
The Shirley Wellard winders are few and far between but go for reasonable prices as no one knows what they are, but people ask ludicrous prices for the cassettes. I have seen asking prices of £65 for one cassette. I have never paid more than £7 for a cassette.

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Hi Nat
From my limited experience with plastic reusable cassettes I’ve never had much luck with them, the final straw for me came when I to one out of my Rollie 35 which is obviously by design a tight fit, the cassette cap jammed in the camera while I pulled the main body out exposing all the film, I promptly threw them away and ordered used film cassettes on line, this now works great for me.
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