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Hello ! I decided to play with my wife's elmo projector that had been sitting in a closet for 40 years. It started like a charm and we enjoyed old family movies.. However, when it was time to get it back in the box, I could'nt manage to fold the arms !! The manual says to depress the small metallic parts, but they refuse to move. Did i miss something ?
Thanks for your help =)
I don't own an Elmo, do you press downwards - towards the floor, or do you press inwards, as in towards the wall. From the photo it looks as though you press inwards, but I could be utterly wrong!
It's great that the GS worked so well after sitting in that closet for so long!
When you first raise the arms, the buttons spring out and prevent the arms from moving. To lower the arms, press the buttons inward, back into the projector body. As Dominique suggests, press firmly!
Thank you for your replies ! So, there really is a problem... It's rock hard and I'm afraid to use pliers or lubricant (I definitely discarded the hammer idea ...)
. I downloaded the technical manual, I'll try to unscrew the reel motors to see what's hidden there !
I'll keep you informed in case someone faces the same problem !
I don't know what everyone else thinks, but I would be tempted to try a careful spray of WD-40 around the sprung buttons, maybe with the Elmo lying face up, so that it penetrates the springs in the buttons. Give it a couple of hours to penetrate and try that. I'd prefer that to dismantling anything as a first approach. Maybe those springs behind the buttons are just a bit old and oxidised? I think as long as it is applied carefully and precisely, it wouldn't do any harm to try?
Hello, Welcome Fred. Keep us posted but I second the WD-40 idea as the best course of action. Another thing you can try as strange as this sounds is heat from a hair dryer. Quite often projectors that have been dormant for years need to wake up so too speak. Gently heating them can sometimes bring them back. Besides it sometimes pays to try the simple non-invasive stuff first. If it's too far gone then you'd have probably had to pull it apart anyway but if it works you've kept it factory.
The buttons can be stiff after a while - I agree WD40 likely will loosen them press and HOLD them in as you fold the arms to the top of the machine.
If the buttons will not press in lubrication should free them.
Great the machine worked well. GS1200's seem to not like to sit idle too long
Sooo ... The button is really tightly fit into the projector's body and as I said, it would't move at all, to the point that it feels like it's not a moving part =). I tried the WD 40 but it didn't work. Then i saw on the technical manual that the front mechanism was quite easy to acces by removing the reel motor, only 3 screws =). Once done i checked the spring mechanism and it was perfectly fine, i removed it and the button was still stuck !! I think that there was a very tiny bit of oxydation on it or on the body, and it's so tightly fit that it was blocked. Finaly I had to (gently !) use a hammer to push it off. I used a fine grain sandpaper on the hole and on the button to remove what blocked everything, added some WD40 and problem solved !
Removing the rear reel mechanism is more complex and i didn't dare doing it. Since i knew what the problem was, I directly used the hammer and managed to push the button inside the body, just enough to fold the arm. The button doesn't come out but the projector works fine (and i can put it back in its box) !
Thanks again for your help ! I don't see how to edit the title of the post but it can be set to solved !
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