Sorted!

In the course of an average day in my [new] business, I can be found repairing all sorts of machinery, from chainsaws to brushcutters and hedge trimmers to cement mixers. Today, however, during my quest to 'burn' a roll of Polypan-F at 800asa - just out of curiosity, I became ever so aware of the fact that the little Elmar lens on my beloved Leica II was getting extremely stiff. I momentarily put this down to the fact that the temperature in the workshop was hovering around the zero degrees celsius mark. But wait a minute I thought. This is a Leica and things should be mechanically sweet. Without further ado (and me being me) I hoisted it onto the workbench & wrestled with it for a few minutes, with the assistance of a few 'precision' tools from my box. Hey presto! who needs the experts at Solms and an expensive CLA. This baby is now as smooth as a - well, you know what.

Precision Toolkit

Thank goodness for 3-in-1 oil!

If anyone can offer advice on souping my Polypan-F experimental film then I'd be much obliged to hear from you. My initial thoughts are Rodinal 1+100 for a few hours, or maybe a day or two?