Posts: 506
From: Avellino (Italy)
Registered: Dec 2003
posted March 06, 2004 07:00 AM
Dear friends, one of my friends is the owner of a factory able to make industrial machines. He has the tools to make a clone of the GS1200 original claw! Next month we start with the first prototype: we want to use the modern technologies to obtain a stronger iron for the pins! When the little production will start, you'll find the claws on ebay! Do you think there is a market for it? The price will be not expensive, less the price of the last original spare parts.
posted March 06, 2004 09:34 AM
Wow Ugo thats amazing, great stuff, hope I manage to get a GS one day and at least with this sort of effort they will keep going for years. I`d say looking at the excellant gate material that will never wear out at all. Well done, hope it pans out well. best Mark.
posted March 06, 2004 11:20 AM
I have a Eumig with a broken claw and I understand that might be a common problem caused by changing the format gate with claw in wrong possition. Might be a consideration for your friend to produce as well. If these do become available how difficult to change? ( Sort of how many spanners as per Haynes car manuals.)
Posts: 1336
From: United Kingdom
Registered: Jun 2003
posted March 08, 2004 01:09 AM
IHad the same problem with a Eumig but found a repairer who had a jig to produce a new one. It was not expensive (circa £20 I think)and the company was
Sprockets - 01823 672050
I did not realise at the time that it was necessary to retract the claw before changing formats (didn't even know what a claw was then!)
posted March 08, 2004 02:21 AM
Put me down for one Ugo. Just send it through with an invoice!!!
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Posts: 506
From: Avellino (Italy)
Registered: Dec 2003
posted March 09, 2004 05:18 AM
Hi friends, about the other projectors I think it's not a good idea to make a clone of their claws. It's easy to find, for example, a cheaper old Eumig and to get from it the claw for a 938 or 940 (I hope are the same). About the Elmo machines, the claws are equals in every model. So it's possible to get the claw from a low budget model to mount it in a GS1200 or an ST1200. The problem is that for every Elmo machine you have to pay not less than 150/200 euro. And now the problem: how to change the claw? At first: you pay to me a ticket fly... Better: you study the service manual for the GS1200. Under the guide of this book it's easy - really - to understand how the change the claw (and a lot of others works).
Posts: 1461
From: West Sussex, UK.
Registered: Jun 2003
posted March 09, 2004 04:10 PM
Ugo
Perhaps you should set up a claw replacement clinic at the BFCC that way all the money you get changing claws would pay for your ticket over.
Come to think of it you could team up with Kev', he could do a quick service [rub down with an oily rag, that sort of thing] and between you we could have the worlds first travelling Elmo service station
Trouble is, all us Elmo owners would be booked into Ealing General by the end of the day for Hernia surgery.
Mike
ps. put me down for a claw when they go into production!
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