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Topic: Elmo ST-1200 Delay in Motor Starting
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Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted June 22, 2015 10:05 AM
I plan to do a thread on my experiences restoring the rubber surface to the shutter wheel (especially if it works out!). So far it looks good, but I haven't run it for more than a 10 minutes at a time yet.
Something I'm not clear on: I don't see a motor shaft poking out the right (non-fan and pulley) end of the motor. My machine looks exactly like Janice's so I think I'm just misinterpreting. Maybe I need to look more carefully. (Everything is packed so close together!)
I've never had the delayed start problem with my machine, but have suffered from the gradual rise towards (never quite "to") 24 FPS.
-so I would like to find this lube point and kill off yet another contributing factor to pokey-projection.
This is an irritating problem: you project reel #1 and everything sounds bassy, musical tempos a little downbeat, and actresses a little masculine sounding, but your ear and your brain compensate. Now you do a changeover to a second machine for reel #2 and until you re-compensate the actors sound like there's just a pinch of helium in the air!
This series of threads could actually turn out to be important: I know a number of us that have been limping along with these problems for years, just maybe we're going to get these machines back up to 24 FPS at last. I'm sure 40 years ago when they left the factory, they were all full speed.
-------------------- All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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