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Michael De Angelis
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1261
From: USA
Registered: Jul 2003

posted April 28, 2005 03:08 PM

Check out this auction link closing at a whopping price.
It's for a Fairchild Standard 8 Sound Projector.
It must have been worth the price for the highest bidder.

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Jan Bister
Darth 8mm

Posts: 2629
From: Ohio, USA
Registered: Jan 2005

posted April 28, 2005 07:31 PM

That is one beautiful machine, though. Mind you, I have no idea what it's really worth, but here's the interesting part: the winning bidder is in fact Roger Evans of http://www.moviestuff.tv/ fame, the guy who sells the WorkPrinter series of film transfer units. Who knows, he may be going to retrofit this Fairchild machine to do just that, but for standard 8mm film. [Smile]

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John Whittle
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 791
From: Northridge, CA USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted April 30, 2005 10:01 PM

Wow! These sold brand new for $259 in 1961!

I only found one (of the last run) that had a good timing belt between the shutter and the sprocket drive. Replacing that timing belt requires driving out some pins and retiming the sprockets.

This is an early machine since it doesn't have the overlay on the volume control with index numbers.

John

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