8mm Forum: 8mm Auto Load, Help!!

»	8mm Forum » 8mm Forum » 8mm Auto Load, Help!!

UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!

Author

Topic: 8mm Auto Load, Help!!

Mark Jeffries
Junior
Posts: 3
From: Sacramento, CA.
Registered: Dec 2009

posted December 05, 2009 08:29 PM

Newbie here, hello all!! Im trying to use the Autoload on a Bell and howell 8mm/Super8. I can get it to take the super8 film, but it always spills out just above the lens. Its a B&H 655A I believe, found it at a garage sale, no book. Any help is appreciated!! Ciao! Mark

| IP: Logged

Steve Klare
Film Guy

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

posted December 05, 2009 09:37 PM

I don't know this machine, but it's pretty common for there to be a lever which needs to be pressed down to route the film during threading, which is then released for normal projection. Sometimes these lock after they are pressed, sometimes not.

It's very possible you will find something like this and once you do it will thread up correctly.

Best of luck!

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

| IP: Logged

Mark Jeffries
Junior
Posts: 3
From: Sacramento, CA.
Registered: Dec 2009

posted December 06, 2009 01:36 PM

Thanks, Steve. I'll keep trying, no luck yet. [Frown]

| IP: Logged

Michael Dixon
Junior
Posts: 29
From: East Bend, NC, USA
Registered: Nov 2009

posted December 06, 2009 04:44 PM

Some of the B&H require the cover, often clear plastic, over the upper feed sprocket to be gently pushed downward prior to inserting the film. The cover will lock down and will release when the film locks into the takeup reel and lifts up the little arm just in front of the reel.

| IP: Logged

All times are Central

Printer-friendly view of this topic

UBB.classic^TM 6.3.1.2