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Topic: Modernising a 9.5mm Pathescope Gem.
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Lee Mannering
Film God
Posts: 3216
From: The Projection Box
Registered: Nov 2006
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posted November 08, 2012 03:22 AM
THE MISSION. To refurb a Pathescope 9.5mm Gem.
At long last I’m finally getting round to doing the strip down and rewire of my beloved Pathescope Gem 9-5 projector. I spent a fun evening stripping it down and managed to complete the rewire, replacing the rubber motor mounts, started on the QI lamp conversion and did a lube on it. It shouldn’t take that much longer to complete this now.
Well on the way with this now and the QI lamp upgrade is complete and everything tested OK. Drive belt sitting ready to fit and pop the claw back on then can give the Gem a good soak test. YAY! And finally.. There’s something rather special about rekindling a bit of a classic and my Gem upgrades are now complete right down to the last imperial chrome plated screw going back into place. I completed the upgrade with a much better quality lens over the old glass bottle Pathescope fitted to these Gems although the original art deco lens does look pretty it has to be said, and lastly a new take up and rewind belt. I’m rather proud of this little Gem and the rewire, lube, motor brush check, motor mounts, new belts and QI lamp conversion plus better lens which were well worth doing.
ITS ALIVE! It gets a test drive today when we have our Bram Stoker night and screen my 9-5 doc 'Truth is stranger than fiction' filmed around Whitby.
Trivia. In 1950 a Gem would have cost you £37-10-0 Today a new Gem would have I guess set you back well over £1000 [ November 08, 2012, 09:53 AM: Message edited by: Lee Mannering ]
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Paul Adsett
Film God
Posts: 5003
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted November 08, 2012 10:35 AM
Well done Lee! As you say, restoring an old projector is a wonderfully satisfying experience. The Gem has always appealed to me with its unique art-deco design. Maurice Thornton and Colin Cowles demonstrated one to me at The Curzon cinema collection in Cleveland UK last May, and I was very impressed at how sweetly it ran and what a fine, steady, picture it produced. But why does its big brother sound version, the Son, have such a bad reputation?
-------------------- The best of all worlds- 8mm, super 8mm, 9.5mm, and HD Digital Projection, Elmo GS1200 f1.0 2-blade Eumig S938 Stereo f1.0 Ektar Panasonic PT-AE4000U digital pj
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