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Posted by Marty Pinkerman (Member # 1523) on March 24, 2009, 08:47 PM:

Here is a clip of the Film Transport I made a couple of years ago.

I hope you like it.

P.S. Luv the forum!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76aKlYHTgqY

Posted by Claus Harding (Member # 702) on March 24, 2009, 09:24 PM:

Marty,
Very pretty indeed. I have a 16mm long-play unit which also works for Standard-8 and Super-8 (if you just change the cores) and it will run long films in either format.
Nice to see your mechanical skills at work in creating what looks like a very functional unit. What kind of motors and control did you use for this?

Claus.

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on March 24, 2009, 09:53 PM:

Martin, it's very impressive.

If I may know, how much does it cost to build this film transport (apart from labor cost).

regards,

Posted by Marty Pinkerman (Member # 1523) on March 24, 2009, 09:54 PM:

Hello Claus.
The Motors are 130v dc Bodine Gearmotors, with a Bodine Filtered Type "WPM" DC Speed Controller. The pulleys & discs & friction rings & the 16mm and Super-8 spindles were all machined locally.

Did you see the ST180-E with the 2000' reels?
It's almost finished.

Posted by Dino Everette (Member # 1378) on March 25, 2009, 01:39 AM:

very cool, I am very envious and curious about the elmo conversion as I am looking to do something similar since I have a number of features on those old extend-a-reels but do not have any means of using them until I can either find one of those (I have given up trying) or can adapt my elmo ST1200-HD to handle 2000' reels. Can you help by explaining your method?

Posted by Yanis Tzortzis (Member # 434) on March 25, 2009, 05:32 AM:

Impressive indeed-well done! Only one question-is there a certain reason why the long play unit is so distant from the projector, or is it just by chance?

Posted by Hans van der Sloot (Member # 494) on March 25, 2009, 05:52 AM:

Hi Marty,

Thanks for sharing this with us.
I enjoyed every second of the 9 1/2 minutes of your you-tube film.
I also envy the space you have where you can do these kind of things.
That's about double the size of my complete house.

Posted by Gian Luca Mario Loncrini (Member # 1417) on March 25, 2009, 06:19 AM:

Impressive! My compliments!

Posted by Lars Pettersson (Member # 762) on March 25, 2009, 07:44 AM:

Marty, in one word, AWESOME! [Smile]

Would you consider constructing/selling something like that?

Oh, and, which movie is it? [Roll Eyes]

Cheers
Lars

Posted by Marty Pinkerman (Member # 1523) on March 25, 2009, 10:54 AM:

Thanks to all for the kind posts.

To Yanis, no reason for the long distance between the projector
and the pedestal, just curious about the tension.

To Lars, I would like to build a few more & see others enjoying
the hobby with a little more simplicity.

When The Elmo is finished, I will post a video of it in action.

By the way, the feature in the video clip is:

"IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE"

What you didn't see was the 800' of The Little Rascal's short's before the feature.

Thanks for the kind posts.

Posted by Jean-Christophe Deblock (Member # 792) on March 25, 2009, 03:56 PM:

Hi!

Very very splendid!

I love this project.

It give me some idea... to make this for me!

Thank's a lot.

JC

Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on March 26, 2009, 11:25 PM:

Some very nice engineering, Marty.

The related links took me to this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdl1sDbJf6Q
It appears to have required some engineering too, but this one leaves me with more questions than answers, like it's a work-in-progress. But the film looks like it's 70mm, not 35.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on March 28, 2009, 02:18 AM:

No that is definitely 35mm running, not 70mm. I recognize that setup. I don't know who's it is, but I know I've seen pictures of that one before.

By the way, very nice job on the film transport! Be sure and put a film cleaner bracket mount on it so you can have automated film cleaning too.

Posted by Jean-Marc Toussaint (Member # 270) on March 28, 2009, 02:55 AM:

Marty: very cool engineering work.

Posted by James E. Stubbs (Member # 817) on April 01, 2009, 12:44 AM:

WICKED!!!!!!! If this can be done it seems that you have the space you could even build a self looping platter system! No more rewinding. I'm most interested in your 2000' ST180E. I have one, but I really want 2000'ers for my ST1200HD. I was just lamenting that My Hells Angels print will have to be mounted on 2 1200's and a 1600 isn't long enough either and I wanted 2000'. It looks like you modified the arms. Is this the case? I'm curious if it's possible to build a 2000' reel that pushes the absolute limit in diameter so that it just barely clears the feed/take up and a small enough core to fit 2000'. Not have any 1600' reels I don't know if this limit has already been reached w/ them.
Cheers,
James E

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