Hi Nate, Here's the link that was forwarded to me: http://djt16.110mb.com/ It has many other helpful guides for various repairs and mods.
Good luck! Mike Morris Dallas, Texas ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:30:54 -0400 From: Nate Cummings <ncummingslamb...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Elmo 16-CL DIY repair question To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks@jonasmekasfilms.com> Message-ID: <cang4d79bpwa6pv4fsgsz0jgfxy_shxanqpsl-ybxlhhjf2d...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Could you forward the link to David Tetzlaff's website with the solution for the focus knob? I have this problem with two projectors at the moment. Thanks, Nate On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Mike Morris <m_alex_mor...@yahoo.com>wrote: > Hello all, > > I've had good luck with finding recommendations here for common repairs on > Eiki projectors but I haven't been able to find anything about a similar > problem that I've run into on an Elmo projector. Like the grommet/bushing > inside the focus knob on Eiki's that turns into rubbery gunk, the black > rollers that engage to guide the film through the slot close to the rear of > the Elmo (3 or 4 of them, one right by the exciter lamp for the optical > reader) have decomposed into tar. In an Eiki, similar rollers are just white > plastic i believe, but in this case they were some kind of rubber that > obviously didn't have much of a shelf life. Any recommendations for what to > replace these with? The heat shrink idea from David Tetzlaff's website > worked perfectly for the focus knob, but I don't know that I could find any > big enough for these rollers, or if that would be ideal for coming into > contact with the film...Any ideas welcome! Thanks so much! > > Mike Morris > Dallas, Texas > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/pipermail/frameworks/attachments/20111015/81c99c73/attachment-0001.html
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