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Posted by John Barbour (Member # 3777) on June 17, 2013, 09:04 AM:
 
Hi folks!

I got a little carried away while cleaning my Keystone K109 projector. I removed the screw that holds the pressure plate in order to better clean that area, and now I can't figure out how that little tension spring thingy fits back in place. Here's a photo of the spring in its approximately correct place:

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That's the easy part. But I'm not sure where the ends go. Do they wrap around the posts of the bracket that holds the pressure plate? Do they connect to the body of the projector? Multiple attempts at fitting this back into place hasn't made the plate fit as it did before I took it off.

Any suggestions? In better news, that pressure plate is super clean.
 
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on June 17, 2013, 04:41 PM:
 
Hi John and welcome to the forum! I took a couple of pics of my K-109 so you can see how the spring fits. You will notice the end of the spring faces upwards and fits around the vertical bar behind the pressure plate.

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Posted by John Barbour (Member # 3777) on June 17, 2013, 07:25 PM:
 
Janice,

Last night, what I thought was going to be a quick clean-up of an already-relatively-clean projector before I ran film through it for the first time turned into a frustrating couple of hours where I tried what (I now see was) almost every possible placement of those spring ends.

Just now, thanks to you and this forum, it literally took one minute to put the spring in place.

I'm hooked!

I'm in the process of viewing and digitizing a huge stack of 8 and 16mm films, mostly home movies from various estates. I'll definitely be around. Thanks so much.
 
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on June 17, 2013, 10:07 PM:
 
Fantasic John. Glad to assist.
 


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