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Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted May 15, 2012 10:14 PM

The last week or so my ST-1200HD has slowly developed this disturbing noise.

If I was driving a car and I heard this sound (and I have...), I'd think a bearing was about to pack it in and I'd better look into it before it took a lot of other machinery with it.

-just a nasty, grinding rumble.

Tonight it got so bad I didn't want to risk ruining a film in it, so I decided to take the rear cover off and have a look.

Turns out the rear cover wasn't tight!

I guess it doesn't always have to be complicated!

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All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...

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Janice Glesser
Film Goddess

Posts: 3468
From: Sunnyvale, CA USA
Registered: Sep 2011

posted May 15, 2012 11:02 PM

I have a habit of initially thinking the worst myself at times. It's hard not to... knowing the age of these projectors. I'm glad it was a simple fix Steve. [Smile]

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Janice

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Richard Dreyfuss - Let It Ride (1989).

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted May 16, 2012 07:37 AM

Thanks Janice!

At first I was thinking the motor bearings were the sound. I thought "If I can't lube them I'll have to replace the motor!"

Changing a motor is a lot of work, but you have to find one first.

Then I thought "I could get a healthy ST-1200HD and this one could be for parts."

-much better I just tightened the cover screws!

What's interesting is the psychology of it. I usually run with two projectors. The other one (ST-800) already had a film threaded and the screen was down. When this happened it bothered me enough I rolled the screen back up, unthreaded the film and grabbed my screwdriver. It wouldn't have been a big deal to limp along with one machine, but I just had to find out what was wrong!

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