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Topic: Arrrgggghhhhh!!!!!! Elmo ST1200
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Mark L Barton
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 621
From: Bristol, South Glos, England
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted September 07, 2013 06:27 AM
Bought a none working Elmo ST1200 from Ebay with £25 postage !!!! The projector arrived in a card box and I knew instantly something was wrong, one corner of the box was crushed. Opening the box there sat the elmo st1200 in its rigid case, the lower part of the case was split, gulp. Opening and extracting the projector revealed the inetrnal plastic parts of the case were cracked, oh no. Then I checked the projector, the hanlde had lost its corner., not that fussed , but rge back casing had suffered a whack!, it was at an angle from the main body and the rear recording panel was almost folded in half. Yes the projector had been handled by the courier like a sack of rubbish , obviously it had been dropped from a height. But, it was also the grave fault of the seller, thinking that the projectors case and a card box was sufficient protection..NOT!!! Anyway I plugged the projector in, high pitched whining sound, dial into fwd projection and nothing. Oh well lets have a fiddle, within 10 mins the projector was working, the motor whine was from a clump of dirt restricting the shaft from rotating smoothly (dont ask) and the take up arm rotation was due to a bent cog shaft (straightened and now turns fine) Even tho she looks battered in the backside the ol' girl still runs, tho the lamp is not working but I've not checked that yet, may just be blwon due to being dropped. Now you would never get todays electronic blu ray players to survive that abuse and still work. I'll post this in the sales section as well
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Mark L Barton
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 621
From: Bristol, South Glos, England
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted September 07, 2013 08:08 AM
Of course i wanted it, its an Elmo, an ST1200, and its a projector. In one of my posts I posited the thought that we are not hobbyists, or collectors but archivists in the practice of preserving celluloid and its associated empherea. Should I sell the projector on, as genuinely described, then l am 100% certain a fellow archivist will buy it, not for my profit but for the continued preservation of this tangible and tactile 'hobby'.
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Paul Adsett
Film God
Posts: 5003
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted September 07, 2013 01:47 PM
A lot of people have no appreciation (or just don't want to be bothered) of what is required to ship an item safely. If you are shipping a heavy item, like a projector, it needs specific packaging methodology for it to arrive safely. When I ship a projector I always double box it. The projector itself should first be wrapped in a plastic bag to protect the innards from any packaging material. Then it should be placed in a box with bubble wrap compressed tightly around the projector. The lens should be removed and packaged separately in its own little box. Control knob areas and spool spindles should be protected with cardboard covers and sleeves. When finished, the projector should have no movement in any direction within this inner box. Now the inner box should be sealed, and placed within an outer box which is at least 3 to 6 inches larger in all dimensions. The space between the inner and outer box should be filled with a 2 inch layer of styrofoam and a thick layer of bubble wrap.
Overkill? Definately not. A projector dropped from a height of as little as 3 ft onto a concrete floor will almost certainly sustain severe damage. The large thickness of the packing material is required to provide enough motion of the projector to reduce the impact G-level to a safe level.
A few years ago I bought my beloved Eumig 938 from an Ebay seller in Canada. It arrived at my house packed just in the original Eumig cardboard box- and nothing else! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) No packing material of any kind, just the projector inside sitting loosely inside a cardboard box! Miraculously it was not damaged, but how it survived being thrown on airline conveyor belts, and onto the backs of trucks etc, I will never know!
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....da da at last it came down the shute, in a basket. I was thinking, did that chap at the security keep it....but no...and thanks to those baggage handlers at Heathrow for taking the time, still got that projector ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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