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Topic: Wanted. Eumig S938 Belts

Pete Richards
Master Film Handler

Posts: 302
From: Australia
Registered: Sep 2010

posted September 11, 2014 08:49 PM

Does anyone know where I can get belts for the Eumig S938 Super8 projector?

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Andrew Woodcock
Film God

Posts: 7477
From: Manchester Uk
Registered: Aug 2012

posted September 12, 2014 06:53 AM

If you are after the toothed drive belt Pete, stocks have long since dried up with all of the dealers I know of. They were patented by Eumig at the time of manufacture and as I have said many times on here in the past 12 months or so, this is one of the reasons why I cannot find it easy to recommend these lovely machines to anyone any longer.

Your best bet is to try and find another S938 for spares including the very vulnerable sound heads on these.

For anyone with a sizeable valued collection these days, I feel this really is the time to be looking to invest in some of the few machines that you can still buy new spare parts for before even they all disappear forever.

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"C'mon Baggy..Get with the beat"

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Martin Jones
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1269
From: Thetford , Norfolk,England
Registered: May 2008

posted September 12, 2014 07:42 AM

Can anyone measure the profile of the tooth/valley configuration of one of these belts, with the number of teeth, and publish the results on here?

Martin

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Retired TV Service Engineer
Ongoing interest in Telecine....

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Maurizio Di Cintio
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 977
From: Ortona, Italy
Registered: Jan 2004

posted September 12, 2014 07:46 AM

Pete I do have a genuine spare toothed belt for the Eumig S 938 (which is the same as the lower end models). I bought it new in the early 90s. I tried to contact you via PM but my message didn't seem to go through. If interested, drop me a line at maurizio_dicintio@fastwebnet.it
Please note: this is not a salvaged belt: it's old new stock, it's never seen a pulley to date because it's been sitting on the shelf of my spares for Eumig projectors for more than 20 years. I still have it simply because despite heavy usage of my projectors, I have never needed replacing this part (indeed I find it strange yours needs replacement...).

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Maurizio

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Andrew Woodcock
Film God

Posts: 7477
From: Manchester Uk
Registered: Aug 2012

posted September 12, 2014 10:10 AM

I'll have it Maurizio if Pete doesn't take it. I'll have a go Martin when I next dig the machine out. I must admit it doesn't get much use at all these days with having two other much better machines.

[ September 12, 2014, 12:43 PM: Message edited by: Andrew Woodcock ]

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Dominique De Bast
Film God

Posts: 4486
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013

posted September 13, 2014 02:16 PM

Won't the 3D printers be able to manufacture things like that (if they cannot already do that) ?

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Dominique

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Andrew Woodcock
Film God

Posts: 7477
From: Manchester Uk
Registered: Aug 2012

posted September 13, 2014 03:57 PM

No Dominique, still in it's infancy regarding "working" parts with a certain type of plastic with decent elasticity properties. Models, yes, working parts, not yet sadly in most cases.

Cannot even manufacture working nylon cams yet that have decent wear properties. When the technology allows this will be a real coup for us collectors!

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Dominique De Bast
Film God

Posts: 4486
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013

posted September 13, 2014 04:27 PM

Let's keep our fingers crossed !

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Dominique

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