Any tricks to unloading film from Minox cassette?

I'm about to try to develop my first Minox film - B&W. Is there a trick to removing film from the cassette without damaging the cassette?

 

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I know, Mom, wash my hands first, then what next? . . . :-)

 

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Yes I plan to reserve the cassette for re-use.

 

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Thanks for your tips!

 

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Jeff

Jeff, for development of Minox 9.4mm B&W film, it is best to load the film in day light using

Minox daylight development tank; in this case you do not need to touch the film. For detail see related thread about Minox tank in DARKROOM section.

<p> Otherwise you have to remove the film in a darkroom, open the supply side cap, and take up side cap, the remove the film sideway, and lift it off. It is not a good idea to pull the film

out from the gap.

<p> If you don't use Minox tank, you miss a part of the fun in Minox film processing.

THe best thing to do is to take a cassette, pull it apart, and fool

around with it. You only waste one charge of film, and it is time

well spent. The cassettes seem a bit complex, but once you take them

apart you find they are so simple that there is really nothing to them

at all - it's amazing to me that they work without binding, take up

correctly, etc. but they do...you must examine them in daylight. By

the way, minox film can also be cut, spooled, and loaded into

cassettes in daylight...no darkroom needed at all.

Steve, I'd like to know how Minox film can be slit, spooled, and

loaded into cassettes in daylight. Maybe I'm missing something, but

unless you have some new kind of slitter/loader I don't know about, I

don't think this is possible. I know of one guy who made a daylight

slitter from an old camera body, but he still has to load his

cassettes in the dark.

Hello everyone. This is for loading a s/s nikor reel or other methods in the dark. Take a pair of sissors with you into the darkroom/changing bag. After you have popped the cover off the take up spool side (where the film is), carefully insert the sissor tips into the hollow spool, expand the blades and GENTLY remove the film/spool from the casseete. Enjoy, Bill

Hello again. I've found something better than the sissor's. Get a new pencil with an unchewed eraser on it. Once the cassette cover is open, put the eraser into the spool and pull the film out. Enjoy, Bill