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<p>Great article! It worked for me!! Although an old post one one wee tip….to get the front rim off use a rubber stopper, they can be found at beer/wine making stores and come in assorted sizes, they're usually a buck.</p> <p>Indeed the little ball bearing/detent is TINY! maybe a single MM so its easy to lose, it took me about eight tries to finally seat the aperture ring with the bearing in place so don't give up hope.</p> <p>Again, thanks for finding a solution to the puzzle, my 35CV is perfect again!! :-)</p>

<p>Although this thread is now ancient history I have to add a very simple and overlooked fact….Ilford Cibachrome/Ilfochrome was a B+W paper. I would make my own developer...a two part developer(farmers/beers? I can't remember but it was two part) that would allow me to vary the contrast from print to print by varying the amount of A and B solutions. I'd use the standard Ilford bleach(one min longer than the advised three for cleaner whites) and then fix in standard B+W rapid fixer. Wash as standard, Voila! I had prints that matched the chromes to the Nth degree.</p> <p>For some reason when the contrast of the developer dropped the color swings became somewhat tame and easier to control, paper speed went up too. All in all though its a great paper but was expensive as hell and rejects became painful. </p>