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Topic: Getting garbled sound
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Maurice Leakey
Film God
Posts: 5895
From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted April 19, 2008 09:21 AM
Jim
Is your B & H an auto-threader? If so, have you released the auto setting by gently pulling on the film where it exits the projector.
Many years ago there was a ring at my door bell, "Hi, I believe you know about film projectors, I'm just down the road in the Church Hall with a borrowed projector, We're having terrible trouble. Can you help please?"
A few minutes later I met a TQIII sitting on a table, already laced up. Yes, the auto thread was still in position. A quick pull. "Now try it!"
It ran perfectly. I got a round of applause, a cup of tea, and, a biscuit.
-------------------- Maurice
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted April 19, 2008 10:26 AM
If your getting garbled sound, take the marbles out of your mouth.
(I tried to give Buddy hackett the same advice, but he didn't listen)]
OSI, the ever helpful!
Could it be too much vibration near the sound heads, and, if so, what is causing the excessive "bounce"? A loose pulley? The plastic piece that loops the the film down into the sound heads, does it hang loose, (and not in a sixties way!) or a little looser than it should?
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted April 20, 2008 01:44 AM
Jim,
This may sound like a silly question, but how long has it been since you got in thier and cleaned the sound heads?
Also, does your projector have what I shall call, "The Guard", that is, the metal (usually) that covers the sound head assembly? This is what keeps the film from sliding out from under the sound heads. If you don't have that type of thing on your sound heads, perhaps this could be the problem.
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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