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Posted by Gary Huggins (Member # 3948) on March 10, 2014, 10:34 PM:

I was looking at a GS 1200 today, and i seemed to be in great condition except for one strange detail - the spindles were too thick for the reels.

Neither the reel of the Super-8 test film I had nor the take-up reel I supplied would fit onto the spindle, not all the way - you really had to jam it on to get it to go even halfway.

Has anyone encountered this before?

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on March 10, 2014, 10:42 PM:

This has to be in regular 8mm forum not "for sale" room. Doug, can you move?

BTW, really strange your situation is. Can you show us a picture.

Perhaps someone has converted the arm to the "Extend-A-Reel" size?

This was previously discussed here:

http://8mmforum.film-tech.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=007378

There are two kind of super 8mm reels:

The one with grey color has bigger slot, but this is very rare. Your projector might have been converted to that size.

Posted by Gary Huggins (Member # 3948) on March 11, 2014, 02:59 AM:

It has definitely been modified to fit the reel on the left. There was a housing around the spindle that had been soldered on.

Yet every other thread about Extend-A-Reel mentions the square 16mm core, and in the photo above it's round.

But if it's been modified for Extend-a-Reel, why would both arms of the projector have the same thicker spindle? The big-slot reels were used as take-up reels only the separate Extend-A-Reel unit, correct?

Is it possible this projector was home-modified so it could project and take-up films that were already on PRC reels?

Posted by Joe Taffis (Member # 4) on March 11, 2014, 09:53 PM:

The blue reel on the left in the photo above is a super 8mm reel....

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