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Hello everyone. I discovered these forums while performing a web search and came here hoping for information. I have several questions and am not certain if all questions are appropriately placed here.
Please note I know absolutely nothing - zero - about the projector I have. I inherited it and just pulled it out of the box today after 10 years to see what it was. I plugged it in and it powers up. I watched a couple of YouTube videos to learn how to put the films on it, and that caused my first question. The YouTube gentleman who has the very same projector as me placed the film on the front arm and when he turned the dial, the back (empty) reel began to spin, and then he went through the process of feeding his film through the projector. Well, my projector's empty reel did not begin to spin when I turned on the machine. Nothing happens when I place the film in that little slot in the front of the machine. I continued to search and learned that there could be film jammed in the feeding system (sorry, I don't know the right words yet), so I popped off the front cover to see if there was anything jammed in there. There is not. Then I learned that there is a belt and I figured that had to be behind the rear cover. I figured since this machine is only 10 years younger than me, there's a good bet that the belt could be dry rotted. I removed the rear cover and it's surprisingly clean back there! Also, the belt is just fine but seems to me to be a bit loose. Is there a tensioner screw somewhere back there? I noticed a kind of canister-like thing with what appeared to be a screw on top, near the belt and wondered if this might be an oil receptacle or something. I unscrewed it and saw that a spring was attached, but it was bone dry. Can someone tell me what this is? So after I spun the belt around by hand, the rear reel began spinning! Sadly, it stopped spinning when I reapplied the rear panel. I need to learn where to oil this machine, and specifically what to use. Can anyone tell me? Is there perhaps a service manual that is available?
As you can see, I have no idea how to use this projector but my grandmother left me films of my siblings when we were 3, 4, 5, & 6 years old. I'd love to watch them but my projector needs some TLC and I do not know how to provide that. A service manual (not a user manual, although I could use one of those too) is what I am in need of. Can anyone help me??
I have wonderful memories of being a small child, sitting outside at night with the family and watching Bela Lugosi films, Vincent Price, etc. Oh how I would enjoy doing that again!!
Please note I know absolutely nothing - zero - about the projector I have. I inherited it and just pulled it out of the box today after 10 years to see what it was. I plugged it in and it powers up. I watched a couple of YouTube videos to learn how to put the films on it, and that caused my first question. The YouTube gentleman who has the very same projector as me placed the film on the front arm and when he turned the dial, the back (empty) reel began to spin, and then he went through the process of feeding his film through the projector. Well, my projector's empty reel did not begin to spin when I turned on the machine. Nothing happens when I place the film in that little slot in the front of the machine. I continued to search and learned that there could be film jammed in the feeding system (sorry, I don't know the right words yet), so I popped off the front cover to see if there was anything jammed in there. There is not. Then I learned that there is a belt and I figured that had to be behind the rear cover. I figured since this machine is only 10 years younger than me, there's a good bet that the belt could be dry rotted. I removed the rear cover and it's surprisingly clean back there! Also, the belt is just fine but seems to me to be a bit loose. Is there a tensioner screw somewhere back there? I noticed a kind of canister-like thing with what appeared to be a screw on top, near the belt and wondered if this might be an oil receptacle or something. I unscrewed it and saw that a spring was attached, but it was bone dry. Can someone tell me what this is? So after I spun the belt around by hand, the rear reel began spinning! Sadly, it stopped spinning when I reapplied the rear panel. I need to learn where to oil this machine, and specifically what to use. Can anyone tell me? Is there perhaps a service manual that is available?
As you can see, I have no idea how to use this projector but my grandmother left me films of my siblings when we were 3, 4, 5, & 6 years old. I'd love to watch them but my projector needs some TLC and I do not know how to provide that. A service manual (not a user manual, although I could use one of those too) is what I am in need of. Can anyone help me??
I have wonderful memories of being a small child, sitting outside at night with the family and watching Bela Lugosi films, Vincent Price, etc. Oh how I would enjoy doing that again!!
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