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
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