Originally Posted by
Chauncey Walden
Back in the 1980s a whole bunch of them surfaced in Denver that were surplus from the USAF photography school there. Although mostly well used all the ones that I ended up with (6 I think) worked well perhaps due to proper maintenance. IIRC they went for $35. I dust everything well inside and out with an antistatic cloth and wax the contact points with bicycle IceWax. Several I have gotten since needed to have some of the septa straightened a bit. An old 6 inch stainless pocket rule works great for this maintaining a straight and uniform guide for the film. I have heard of people having problems by not loading the film completely into the far end of the holder and of people bending the septa by not retracting the little pusher in the loading bay when reloading the septa. Although I have several 10-shot Kinematics the Grafmatics work much more smoothly.
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