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Hi All,
Being confined to virtual home detention due to my age I dragged out some Std 8mm films I shot in the late 1960's the colour of which is still as good as the day it came back from the lab.
Years ago I had been given a Silma Sonik Std 8 Sound machine and apart from admiring the rather nifty Italian engineering it has sat unused for ages. My Eumig Mk S has a problem with the drive discs slipping so I decided to try out the Silma.
After sitting there doing nothing for the best part of 5 years it immediately burst into life albeit a bit noisy and running at 24FPS which was rather useless for my stuff shot @ 16FPS.
Pulled it apart to apply some lube here and there to quieten it down which it did and started to work out why the Speed Change knob just goes round and round and does nothing.
Behind the knob are 2 large toothed gears one of which I think should be attached to the knob and by gently moving the gears with a small screw driver I could drop the speed back to 18FPS which is its only lower speed setting.
Has anyone any experience as to HOW to get the main control knob OFF which is concentric to the Speed Change knob so I can get in behind the knob and see IF I can get these gears to once again function.
Thinking that the Main control knob was just a push fit I have tried levering it off almost to the point of breaking the thing and there are NO obvious grub screws clamping it to the shaft...so HOW did the crafty Italians secure that knob onto the shaft???
Having internally set the speed to 18FPS I ran our collection of films shot when travelling around Australia and am quite impressed with the Silma performance. Focus is great and the best bit is the gate pressure plate is rear sprung so the splices as they go thru do NOT create that usual brief out of focus effect that most front sprung pressure plate designs tend to do.
Only slight downside is that the screen illumination is not as white as the little Eumig S is even though the lamp being a 21.5V x 150W Trufocus type which are now as rare as hens teeth is getting exactly 21.5V fed to it and the only spare lamp I have which is new looks exactly the same on screen.
Other than that a great bit of Italian Engineering almost to the point of overkill...bit like the electrics in Fiat cars...don't get me going there though !!
Lindsay
Being confined to virtual home detention due to my age I dragged out some Std 8mm films I shot in the late 1960's the colour of which is still as good as the day it came back from the lab.
Years ago I had been given a Silma Sonik Std 8 Sound machine and apart from admiring the rather nifty Italian engineering it has sat unused for ages. My Eumig Mk S has a problem with the drive discs slipping so I decided to try out the Silma.
After sitting there doing nothing for the best part of 5 years it immediately burst into life albeit a bit noisy and running at 24FPS which was rather useless for my stuff shot @ 16FPS.
Pulled it apart to apply some lube here and there to quieten it down which it did and started to work out why the Speed Change knob just goes round and round and does nothing.
Behind the knob are 2 large toothed gears one of which I think should be attached to the knob and by gently moving the gears with a small screw driver I could drop the speed back to 18FPS which is its only lower speed setting.
Has anyone any experience as to HOW to get the main control knob OFF which is concentric to the Speed Change knob so I can get in behind the knob and see IF I can get these gears to once again function.
Thinking that the Main control knob was just a push fit I have tried levering it off almost to the point of breaking the thing and there are NO obvious grub screws clamping it to the shaft...so HOW did the crafty Italians secure that knob onto the shaft???
Having internally set the speed to 18FPS I ran our collection of films shot when travelling around Australia and am quite impressed with the Silma performance. Focus is great and the best bit is the gate pressure plate is rear sprung so the splices as they go thru do NOT create that usual brief out of focus effect that most front sprung pressure plate designs tend to do.
Only slight downside is that the screen illumination is not as white as the little Eumig S is even though the lamp being a 21.5V x 150W Trufocus type which are now as rare as hens teeth is getting exactly 21.5V fed to it and the only spare lamp I have which is new looks exactly the same on screen.
Other than that a great bit of Italian Engineering almost to the point of overkill...bit like the electrics in Fiat cars...don't get me going there though !!
Lindsay
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