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Topic: Blade shutter convertion
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Dominique De Bast
Film God
Posts: 4486
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013
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posted March 23, 2017 07:06 PM
I received this morning my Elmo st 180 back from Germany were it the original 3 blades shutter has been replaced by a 2/3 blades shutter (I decided to make this present to myself). It came without instructions so at first sight, I though it would not be practical to move the blades from the lamp holder side.
Then I noticed that the two rear screws had been replaced by screwdriver free ones.
I opened the rear of the projector and then I found that it was quick and easy to set the blade shutter on the desired position.
I tested the projector tonight and it works perfectly.I have now a brighter image at 24 fps and as I use a 1.1 lens with this projector, it is much improved than when I bought it long time ago (it was actually my first sound projector). Of course, the st 180 is not the purposed machine for this kind of transformation (it just happens that it is made like other Elmo projectors and so that it is possible), given the price and most of the members of this forum will not see the point to invest (it costed 207 € with the shipping, the transformation alone is 190 € but you must send them the projector) in a st 180 as there are other "better" Elmo but I certainly don't regret it. I don't know if the company had a look free of charge on the speed button but before I sent the projector, it was difficult to switch from 18 to 24 and vice versa, it now goes without problem. I wish it would have been possible to put such a variable shutter on the ST 1200 projectors, but that's not possible (the GS models and the st 180 and st 600 seem to be the only ones that can be transformed). If your're handy (which I'm not very), they sell a cheaper version, (I don't know the difference, it's, following the pictures, another design, that can be mounted by the buyer, but you need some tools). There seems to be only one person who speaks English, so if you call, cross your fingers for this precious man to be there at that moment, call back if needed. Sending an e-mail is a good idea but it happened in the past that some has never been answered (probably because they were lost or readed by someone who could only understand German and didn't realize the high importance of what I wrote :-) They can convert also Bauer projectors (it is cheaper than for the Elmo projectors but the models are not mentionned on the site).
http://www.ffr-film.de/eng-elmo-.html (Elmo)
http://www.ffr-film.de/index.php?page=bauer&language=eng (Bauer)
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Dominique
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