9p5mm and 28mm reels
Recipe for quick and dirty (could also be clean) 9p5mm and 28mm reels.

Ever have a need for one or two 9p5mm or 28mm reels for take-up or storage?
No time to order from Europe and wait.
Can’t figure out how to put 9p5mm film back in those little painful canisters?

1) Grab a 16mm metal reel with a riveted hub
2) Select a drill size one size larger than the rivet. And the next size up.
3) Put the larger of the two in a vice pointing up on the bed of a drill press and use the first in the drill press chuck.
4) Place the rivets of the reel, one at a time, between the two bits and drill out the cap of the rivet.
5) The reel will now fall apart.
6) Obtain some of the screwy things used to bind reports together in the “old day” (I got mine at brafasco)
7) Use the blank hub to mark a drill hole on a scrap DVD
8) Clamp a pile of scrap dvd’s together and drill the first hole
9) Insert one of the binding posts into the first hole to keep the location and drill the second hole. Etc.
10) Now you can make a stack alternating scrap CD/CVD’s and #10 washers (because discs are not flat) and build up a hub to any desired thickness.
11) Place the other side of the reel on and screw on the other side of the post (gives a flat finish with no screws or nuts exposed.

Result reel also works on a standard 16mm rewind.
Appreciate for a few minutes, put a wrap of leader around the edge of the discs and good to go.