Jobo 1566 stainless reels for plastic tanks

[pete_su]

I have a Jobo tank that I like for processing 35mm film, but I

could never make it work for 120.

 

I've recently been using a small stainless steel tank and Hewes

120 reels, and I really love the reels but I miss the fast fill and

dump times of the plastic tank. Also, my Jobo tank could handle

4 120 reels at once, and a similar stainless tank would be pretty

expensive to buy.

 

I notice that Jobo has been selling special stainless reels that

work in their plastic tanks for hand inversion (they go over the

normal plastic center core).

 

I'm wondering if anyone here has tried these reels and if they

work well?

[jim_kish]

After many frustrating episodes with the nearly-useless plastic 120 reels I bought the stainless version and will never go back. Do it. You won't be sorry.

[Marc453]

I dunno, maybe I've mastered the plastic reels, but I load them faster than the stainless steel ones. I round the edges of the film with scissors before loading. This prevents the film from lodging on the edges of the plastic. I haven't bought the JOBO steel reels yet, because I have a lot of stainless nikkor reels. I found a peice of pvc pipe that fits over the stainless steel tank and it fits the grooves of the Jobo rollers. Since the tank is steel, its magnetic and attaches to the turning mechanism with no problems. This work around is good but temperature control is suspect.

[pete_su]

As a followup.

 

I bought some of the 1566 reels, and they are great. Just as nice

to use as the normal Hewes 120 reels.

 

I also bought some of the 1565 reels for 35mm, and they are

more of a mixed bag. They definitely don't load as nicely as the

normal Hewes reels. I think making room for the center core

forced them to use thinner rails with a smaller spacing, so the

film tends to get caught on the rails very easily and kink up.

 

So I bought some Hewes 35mm reels and am much happier.

[frank_filippone3]

I asked JOBO about the Hewes reels.. they claim Hewes makes the SS reels for JOBO... supposed to be the same reel!

 

Wonder why you found a difference in the Hewes and JOBO?

 

Frank