So that was the root cause exposed!
Brian
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> In a message dated 6/5/2008 4:39:45 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
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> In my past, lived in a town where film was made and packaged in yellow
> boxes. Part of the process involved human eye inspection of the emulsion
> coating
> as the film whizzed past in front of the inspector(s), prior to
> cutting/spooling/foil wrap/packaging.
> Late one summer during the early 1940's, random white deposits started to
> appear on the unexposed emulsion, causing expensive rejection of valuable
> film.
> After much head scratching and high priced analyses, the deposit was
> identified as NaCl, aka salt. No salt in the process, random shifts,
> random times
> during the workday, random distance from the edge of the moving film strip,
>
> variable size of the deposit, etc. etc. etc.
> Use of a hidden camera + film sensitive to very dim red light conditions
> used in the inspection rooms to protect the unexposed emulsion finally
> revealed
> the culprit.
>
>
> Clue 1: In the early '40s the USA was involved in WW2. With normal food
> supply chains interrupted in favor of supplying the war effort, citizens were
> directed to plant food around their homes in small gardens, aka 'Victory
> Gardens'. Some even kept chickens in their garages. (As the only child in the family
> at the time + being closest to the ground, I chosen to be Director of
> Weeding, so got to know every square inch of the garden on a daily basis).
>
> Clue 2: Late summer was harvest time for these mini-farms. Many citizens
> brought the harvest directly into the kitchen, washed the dirt off the root
> vegetables and ate some as a snack while awaiting a cooked dinner.
>
> Clue 3: Some were so fond of said vegetables that they put them in their
> lunch boxes to enjoy during the extended work day of the times.
>
> And the cause, as determined by the monitoring camera: Inspectors randomly
> reaching into the their lunch boxes for a snack-- in this case it was radishes-
> holding it near their heads as they bent over the moving emulsion coated
> film so they could salt it and eat it without taking their eyes off the film.
> (Naturally it never happened when a supervisor entered the inspection chambers,
> which is typical today- no ordinary citizen speeds up when they see the
> police car behind them.)
>
>
> Bill Kenyon
> Global Centre Consulting
> 3336 Birmingham Drive
> Fort Collins, CO 80526
> Tel: 970.207.9586 Cell: 970.980.6373
>
>
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