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Posted by Brian Collins (Member # 761) on November 08, 2010, 12:38 PM:

I have solved the problem I hope with my Ditmar, just realised that the belt on take up reel is rubber and is too tight and pulling film through bottom pulley and loosing bottom loop, Need a wire belt, have one but is too long, is there any way of re-joining it to make it shorter, or is there an alternative material to replace the wire type, could try making a clutch to fit on the take-up pulley I suppose as a last resort. any ideas gents?

Posted by Dino Everette (Member # 1378) on November 09, 2010, 12:05 PM:

I would just get a replacement belt..I have always had bad luck with the wire ones' slipping, I used to get them from Warton but now you might try who he gave all of his stock over to at mikebelts_atthe_yahoo_dot_co.uk

Posted by Brian Collins (Member # 761) on November 09, 2010, 12:37 PM:

The reason for a wire belt is so that it does slip on the take-up reel as this machine has no clutch for doing that, have just found one that does fit and tried it out on a 400ft reel of film and it worked perfectly. So I am now happy [Big Grin]

, would still like to know if it is possible to re-join these wire belts.

Posted by Dino Everette (Member # 1378) on November 11, 2010, 01:31 AM:

Brian Oh, that makes sense, I have rejoined them with some needle nose plyers and the little joined bit (as long as it is not too large) doesn't really hurt it.

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