Hi Mike, Hope all is well in TX. If I'm reading this correctly, you're looking for something like a rubber "belt". I had some luck a few years back trying out different vacuum cleaner belts. The frame rate was never perfect but the belts cost about $2 a piece.
If you don't find a more elegant solution...... Warren On Oct 15, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Mike Morris <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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