Negative carrier/enlarger for enlaging Xpan negs.

I use a Durst M670 enlarger to make prints from my Xpan negs. The only neg. carrier combination I can use with this enlarger/film format is a 6x7 lower mask with a glass upper plate. Two problems arise. The first (and least problematic) is that unwanted light floods past the top & bottom edges of the neg. as of course they are not masked off by the 6x7 mask. I solve that by masking with the masking frame though I do still have unwanted light about. The bigger problem is that as the film edges are not held in place by by the mask. That means when I enlarge either of the two end negs. (of the strips of three into which I cut my films,) the cut end tends to spring through the metal mask as I coax the neg. towards the edgeof the frame. Does anyone know ao a quality enlerger where the manufacturer provides a dedicated Xpan mask?

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