Pacific Image Universal 50 Tray for PS3650 35mm PowerSlide Scanner

2011-12-26T19:00:00

A good tray for thicker or slightly warped non-plastic mount slides. Use the round 100 carousel for those. You HAVE to move the orange piece on the scanner push arm to the end of the arm in order to use this tray. (This item doesn't usually come with instructions but this is the IMPORTANT item about the tray.) Most other sellers are usually sold out of this model. Also be aware that this tray will extend to either side of the scanner - so leave room. It also has a different orientation when loading the slides from the other trays. I've run about 10,000 slides through my scanner with the various types of trays. I usually give each tray a spray of silicone lube once after receiving it (rarely get jams). Use the round trays for plastic mounts and perfect cardboard mounts - the secret here is get rid of the plastic clippy things from the bottoms of the round trays and have the tray completely full or it may stop turning halfway through the scan (gravity acting on a half loaded tray) and repeatedly scan the same slide. The supplied 50 tray that comes with the scanner also works if you can't fill the 100 slide round tray. This 50 Universal model is the one to use if you have thicker or older slightly warped slides or are worried about some that might jam. If they won't fall out by gravity out of the round tray then they need this one.

GREGORY P.

2011-12-11T19:00:00

Any fatter or slightly warped non-plastic mount slides need this thing rather than the enclosed tray or the round carousel. You have to make sure the orange plastic pusher thing on your scanner is extended (it is retracted for all other magazines) for this to work. Also double check the slide orientation when loading. I slides into the grooves of the scanner and will extend to either side for a decent distance - so make sure there is space when scanning. Does not appear to be on sale from the pacific image site often. Adorama has everything. Jams are easier to clear and see than the round tray.

GREGORY P.

2011-08-30T21:00:00

This tray is great in that the slots are sufficiently wide to accept the old glass-mounted slides I have, that are too thick to fit in the standard tray that came with my PowerSlide 3650. However, this tray is not shaped correctly along the outside wall where the arm goes in and out, causing the tray to be tipped up slightly to fit around a tab in the chute wall near where the arm is. The slight tipping of the tray causes the slide to jam against the top of the scanner opening as it is being pushed into the scan position. I was able to cut off a portion of the tray to make it fit around the tab properly - but it should be contoured correctly in the first place. Also, the bottom of the tray that slides along the chute in the PowerSlide 3650 is narrow, not filling the entire space. This allows my heavy glass slides to tip and jam against the bottom edge of the tray as they're pulled from the scanner. Not good. I ended up making a spacer to fill in the gap between the tray and the scanner entry/exit mouth to prevent the slide from dropping, which allows it to operate reasonably reliably now with far fewer jams. So while the tray holds my thick, heavy slides - a good thing - it neither allowed the slides to be pushed into the scanner without jamming nor let them be pulled out without jamming until I corrected both these problems.

happy s.

2011-06-17T21:00:00

I bought two of these to use with a Pacific Image PS3650 and they are completely useless. The slide slots are so big that my cardboard-mounted slides flop around loosely, making the scanner's push arm miss the slide almost every time. I tried using my second magazine to tilt the scanner so the slides would sit in the same position, but that same position is to the side, not in the middle. Look at the reviews for the Braun 100S (don't forget the S) GRAY round slide carousel for 2.2mm or smaller slides. They are stellar, with the proviso that you fully load the tray with 100 slides each time. Don't waste your money on this one.

OutThirtyBucks

2011-06-17T21:00:00

I wrote that slides in this tray flop around making the push bar on the Pacific Image PS3650 miss the slide. This scanner has an atrocious user manual that does not contain this piece of information I had to find online: There is an orange plastic slider on the handle end of the push bar will make the end of the push bar wider; wide enough to push every slide in this tray, no matter where it has flopped. To find it, pull out the black handle and look at the top of the silver metal bar. Don't try to remove it. PUSH it along the bar towards the machine as far as you can. Then push the black handle in until you can see the orange slider and move it the rest of the way out to the end of the push bar. Now this tray will work fine!

John B.

2010-01-10T19:00:00

Surprisingly, it took me some time to figure out how this tray mounts on the Power Slide 3650. However it does work without jamming. The only draw back is the length of the tray and the necessary space required on either side of the machine. The stock tray supplied with the machine works just as well and is just over 1/2 the length, both hold 50 slides. The Braun round tray (BRTM250AFG) also works nicely and holds 100 slides and requires no space on either side of the machine. All trays work well without any jamming to date on my machine, however, all of my slides are in pristine condition, jamming may occur when bent slides are scanned.

Slide G.