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Topic: Elmo K100 SM
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Mike Peckham
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1461
From: West Sussex, UK.
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted June 28, 2004 02:59 PM
Doug
I'm afraid there is no cure, I have tried to go cold turkey but the jitters were just unbearable. I just had to have that next box. I think I have most of the Elmo boxes now, I have a pretty good supply from Sankyo too and over thirty from MGM! ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) One or two repetitions have crept in, these I have thought about passing on to friends but you just don't know....... I should hate for them to become addicts too, the shame and the guilt would be just unbearable....
Ronnie
A cruel suggestion, a box with nothing in it ![[Confused]](confused.gif) it just wouldn't feel right, every time I looked at it I would know that their was something missing, a box with an empty heart ![[Frown]](frown.gif) .
I must go now, the nice man with the white coat is filling up another big needle, hmmmm... nice box that needle was in.....
Mike ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Auntie Em must have stopped wondering where I am by now...
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Mike Peckham
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1461
From: West Sussex, UK.
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted July 17, 2004 03:38 AM
So, the little projector arrived and there was good news and bad news. The projector itself is in fantastic condition, another one of those that somehow seems to have escaped being used for the last 30 years, there have been one or two teething problems but I shall come to those in a moment.
Ironically, the box, that was pictured in the description had been all the packaging the seller had used when it was sent through the post so what had been a perfectly preserved 30 year old bit of cine memorabilia now has transit stickers wallet documents and customs slips plastered all over it, not to mention my address 'handle with care' and 'this way up' in large letters on the top. Hmmm.... I guess he wasn't to know, but it does seem a shame .
As for the function of the projector, when I first plugged it in it didn't seem to work, all the lights lit up and the motor ran but nothing visible was turning. I had the back off surprisingly quickly and found that there was 'slippage' going on between the black pulley wheel and the shutter disc thingy, a little preasure on there made the mechanism whir into action but releasing the preasure allowed it all to come to a hault again.
I pressed on though and slowly everything seemed to slowly come to life and eventually carried on going even when I released the pressure. The extra drag of running a film through it though slowed it all down and it nearly came to a standstill but having been running it every evening since it arrived I can report that it all seems to have loosened up and [once warmed up] purrs away beautifully.
I guess this is testament to the fact that projectors like to be used and sitting in a box just doesn't agree with them.
At the moment I haven't been able to properly try out the sync system because all the sound sync films I have shot with my Elmo camera have been shot at 24fps and the SP will only run sync at 18fps, so this weekend I shall be out with the camera and running off a couple of reels at 18fps!
So, thanks Ronnie for putting me on to it, the little SP has endeared itself to me already and I'm really enjoying using it. Isn't that what cine is all about?! ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
Mike
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