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Topic: Elmo 16-CL Sound Problem - FIXED
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Steve Hartwell
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Posts: 28
From: St Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Jan 2014
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posted December 02, 2017 11:07 AM
Hi Janice, this thread began and stopped 5 years ago, so I feared I might not hear back. Silly me. Thanks.
You helped me immensely last year with my sankyo 1000 8mm, thanks again belatedly. (however, now it makes a racket most but not all the time when running film but not on re-wind, not sure why.)
So, it's a long story. Last year my rollers had turned to goo, I got a local company to make me new ones, but I chose the wrong "hardness", against their recommendation to go harder, 2 were too soft, 1 began losing it's outer surface months ago so I took it off and ran films fine without it, then last month I got to do about 20,000 feet of historically significant films, at least over half with sound, and another roller lost quite a bit of it's outer surface causing the film to increasingly squeak louder and louder till finally the film jammed, and I took it off too. I was able to continue running the last few films that way.
THEN, I decided to re-run 1 of the films for a sharper image, but, I'd loaded it wrong, and it chattered its way thru for a few seconds before I stopped it. I feared I'd destroyed the film but it was ok, so I loaded it properly, and ran the film.
BUT, there was no sound after that incident.
I tested it again, and a couple of other films, and the sound from those tests was badly crackling, the volume up and down, and threatening to disappear altogether, but it was there, when there was none after the 'incident' before the testing.
SO, cleaning with a cloth didn't help, and I thought maybe something with the sound retrieval got damaged on the bottom of the solar cell, and figured I'd try getting it out to get at the bottom.
That's when I found the glue.
That's when I found this thread looking for a solution to what to do about the glue.
And that's about the gist of the story.
steve
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steve
www.homemovies.ca
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Steve Hartwell
Junior
Posts: 28
From: St Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Jan 2014
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posted December 02, 2017 01:04 PM
I'm puzzled, doesn't seem like either the buzz track or sound lens should have been caused to get out of alignment, had sound before the 'incident' but everything is so solid, and glued, how could either part get misaligned from the 'incident'.
By sound lens I assume you mean what I call the solar cell, the round black thingy that sits in metal housing over the film, between the film and the exciter lamp.
So, at this stage, considering being told the sound apparatus adjustments will make it worse if not done correctly, and really should use a special calibrating film I can't get, I'm at total indecision as to what to try.
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steve
www.homemovies.ca
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Steve Hartwell
Junior
Posts: 28
From: St Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Jan 2014
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posted December 15, 2017 09:53 PM
So, my rollers kit from Urbanski arrived yesterday, I put them on tonite, and tried a 16mm sound film in it, and,
seems to have done the trick, fixed the problem, good as new.
yah !
thanks again all for your advice and patience. - steve
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www.homemovies.ca
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