8mm Forum: Spares or repairs ELMO ST1200 for sale

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Posted by Mark L Barton (Member # 1512) on September 07, 2013, 06:31 AM:

Heres the story as posted in the chat section:
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 blown due to being dropped.Will also need the small spring that attached the motor rollers to the shutter, alsmost the size of a retractable pen spring.
Selling as spares or repairs with possible further work needed. Can email pics to email addresses. And when I post it it will be bubble wrapped and marked clearly as fragile. Asking £70 plus postage, ideally to mainland England but if you really want the ST and live abroad and happy to pay shipping costs then I'm happy to post it to you. Thanks

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