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Topic: Places to get projectors repaired
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Joe Maiolo
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Posts: 2
From: East Tawas, MI USA
Registered: Feb 2013
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posted March 04, 2013 08:51 PM
Hello all you film masters/gods (or whatever). My name is Joe, I live in the upper part of the lower peninsula of Michigan in the great north woods and I am new to 8mm forum. I'm what you would call a film-rank amateur, because I know absolutely nothing about films or projectors. When I was a young man I worked with my Dad who, back in the 70's, managed a movie house. He used to sell the tickets and I was the guy who stood by the metal stand with a hole in the top, where I would deposit the ticket after I had torn it in half. A person would buy a ticket off my Dad at the box office and come into the theatre where I was standing and hand me the full ticket. I would then palm the full ticket and give the customer a half a ticket that had been sold at some previous date. Then my Dad would take those whole tickets that I had palmed and sell them again and pocket the dough. My cut was an "attaboy" and maybe a free box of popcorn if the film had sold alot of tickets that night. I remember I was my old man's pride and joy when "The Godfather" and "Billy Jack" were playing. My father was a flim flam man extraordinare. I enjoyed sitting up in the projection booth and watching this guy named Leo work the projectors. He was a heavyset guy with eyeglasses and he would eat a bucket of heavily buttered and salted popcorn every night, which he would wash down with a coke in a cup that he brought from his house. A huge cup about the size of a small bucket. His chin was always greasy and his shirt was always stained. He loved to talk about comic books and movies, especially espionage movies, but he never talked about broads. He was one of those guys who collected things and never got laid. You know the type. He would sit and wait for the projector bell to go off and then switch on the second projector to continue the movie. Once in a while he let me work the projectors. It's these fond memories that has led me to purchase a projector off of eBay. Well, I ended up getting flim flammed. I bought an Elmo SC-18 HiVision projector on eBay that was supposed to be in "great working condition." I paid $199.00 for it plus $33.00 to ship (what that a good price, or did I pay too much?). When I received it the bulb came on and the motor ran but nothing else happened, other than this horrible smell that emanated from the top vent of the projector. I took off the back of it and saw that the belts had turned to mush around the sprockets and were scattered throughout the projector. The horrible smell was pieces of the rubber belt that had landed on the motor and melted from the heat. After three hours of cleaning the projector I put it away and I am now waiting on the two belts to arrive from California. Anyways, in case the replacing of the belts doesn't fix the projector entirely, does anybody know of a place where I could send it to get fixed? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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