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Hi all,
I've just joined this forum after some searching and it looks to be the perfect place for film and equipment chat! I'm based in the UK and have 2x Ampro projectors, the first being a New Educational model, this looks the same as the stylist but runs on UK 240v Mains. The second I have, which I will be writing about is a 1940's (guessing) Amprosound that is a real project that I have started.
Unfortunately it was damaged in transit to me and the side cover of the lamp house has shattered, so I will be looking for a replacement for this. I decided to still go ahead with repairs and pull out the amplifier for checking over. I was met with a lot of missing parts which was a bit defeating. It has no valves, the smoothing block capacitors are missing and the oscillator coil has also dissapeared, along with the shield that covers the valves from the rest of the amp circuitry.
I'm going to go ahead and repair it anyway, I know of someone who could make me a coil up to replace the missing one and everything else is 'off the shelf' so they should be easy enough to obtain.
I just wondered what peoples thoughts were on these projectors? To me they look to be quite good quality, especially the amplifier which is very well designed, threading is a bit more complicated than other projectors but other than that it looks to be a nice machine.
I've just joined this forum after some searching and it looks to be the perfect place for film and equipment chat! I'm based in the UK and have 2x Ampro projectors, the first being a New Educational model, this looks the same as the stylist but runs on UK 240v Mains. The second I have, which I will be writing about is a 1940's (guessing) Amprosound that is a real project that I have started.
Unfortunately it was damaged in transit to me and the side cover of the lamp house has shattered, so I will be looking for a replacement for this. I decided to still go ahead with repairs and pull out the amplifier for checking over. I was met with a lot of missing parts which was a bit defeating. It has no valves, the smoothing block capacitors are missing and the oscillator coil has also dissapeared, along with the shield that covers the valves from the rest of the amp circuitry.
I'm going to go ahead and repair it anyway, I know of someone who could make me a coil up to replace the missing one and everything else is 'off the shelf' so they should be easy enough to obtain.
I just wondered what peoples thoughts were on these projectors? To me they look to be quite good quality, especially the amplifier which is very well designed, threading is a bit more complicated than other projectors but other than that it looks to be a nice machine.
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