I purchased 2 of these Braun 50-slide compact slide magazines/trays
This post is in conjunction with my two other posts on my experience scanning 35-mm slides. Please check out them as well:
How to Scan Slides on a Pacific Image PowerSlide 5000 With VueScan on a Mac
How to Fix Braun Paximat Multimag Compact Magazine Jamming on Slide Number 25
Step 1: Take a closer look at slot number 25
After seeing the trend I took a better look at the tray slot 25 on each of those magazines and noticed some excess plastic where the black plastic meets the white plastic as seen below:
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| Extra black plastic lip on slot #25 causes the slide to stick |
Step 2: Use a sharp knife to scrape off the excess jagged plastic
This must be excess plastic that was not broken off after removing the part from the injection mold. You can scrape this excess plastic off with a knife:
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| Removing the excess plastic off the edge of the inside of slide number 25 |
Step 3: Try it again and see what happens.
After scraping off the excess plastic I have not had a problem with slide 25 since.
All my film/negative scanning posts:
- How to Archive and Store 35-mm Slides
- How to Fix Braun Paximat Multimag Compact Magazine Jamming on Slide Number 25 (this post)
- How to Scan Slides on a Pacific Image PowerSlide 5000 With VueScan on a Mac
- How to Scan Odd-Sized Negatives on an Epson Perfection V700 Scanner Model J221A
- How to Scan Odd-Size Negatives on a HP Scanjet 4850
- Scanning Slides With a Braun Multimag SlideScan 4000 Diascanner, same as Pacific Image ProSlide 3650
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Braun sold 2 versions of magazines – white were for mounted slides, which has 2 layers of glass, and subsequently they sold a grey version which was for unmounted slides. (Just back from Kodak in the card mounts)
If you are using unmounted slides, the white ones will often misfeed.
Horses for courses, as they say.
So I have a Powerslide 3650 scanner and just ordered a new 50 magazine tray online because the edges of mine were worn out…I have scanned like 5000 slides already. But the one I ordered said it was for the Powerslide 3650 and the 5000. But it is a bigger one, not compact like my first one. It doesn’t seem to be working. It isn’t pushing the slide all the way in…the silver bar kind of hits the side. Should I return the bigger tray I got and get another compact magazine or should the new one I bought work?
Thanks for the question. I seem to remember trying to use the larger cartridge you are describing. I believe it is for larger (thicker) slides and it didn’t work so well for me either. I can tell you that the round high-capacity carousel tray never worked consistently for me because the inner corners of the slides were so close together and some of the cardboard slides would catch an adjacent slide. I’d say go with what is working for you and return the other one.
I think I remember more now–because the slides are so far apart, there’s a bit more room for the arm to slip off to one side and I do believe I had that same issue. I’d go back to the compact version which has the slots so close together that the adjacent slides guide the arm and keep it on the current slide.