I tried the HP Combi for the first time last night.
Question: Am I supposed to agitate by inverting the tank?
The reason that I am asking is because I did, and when I opened the tank after development, all of the 4x5 sheets where no longer in the slots that I put them in before processing. They were all floating around loose and stuck together. It looks like they developed ok, but I can't imagine that they are supposed to come out of their slots.
I can see a few potential problems.
1) when I put the film holder together, one side of it is not rigid. The side that has the nuts that you tighten down during assembly it is tight, but the opposite side is not.
2) there is nothing holding the film in the slots from above.
3) Maybe I didn't put the film in the slots correctly. I simply slid each piece of film into it's own slot, and since there was nothing to prevent them from coming backu up out of the slots, I left it like that.
4) Maybe you have to invert the tank using some special technique that I'm not using.
Assuming it is designed well, it's possible that I either didn't assembled it correctly, or there are parts missing. The directions were kind of sketchy.
I guess I can deal with the fact that it leaks when you invert it, and that it takes a long time to fill and empty, but I think the film should stay in place.
Has anyone had similar problems?
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