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What is the brand of the film projector on any film gauge that you still use today that you bought from NEW ( not used or secondhand ) and still projects and performs good with no problems ? Also please state the year that you bought it and how much services it has had during your ownership of it .
OK, I have to REALLY go back for this one (as my second venture back into super 8 as of 2004, was in buying nearly new projectors), back to 1988. I bought brand new, a Chinon 9500 magnetic and optical projector, and, as long as I had it, it functioned properly. In my second venture, while I do have the Chinon 9500's again, my workhorse, never fail projectors, have been the higher end Eumigs 926 and 940 stereo projectors and boy, how I would LOVE to find another Eumig 926 Stereo or 940 stereo brand new, out of box!
David, I purchased my first Super 8 Sound projector in 1977. It was purchased from a shop in Newcastle Under Lyme called Miller & Palin. It was a Eumig 807D and cost £199, a lot of money then. That is 48 years ago and in all that time the only maintenance carried out on it apart from cleaning the film path myself and a bit of a dust is that it had new sound heads fitted in the 1980’s and that’s it. People praise Elmo and they are good, but Eumig we’re built to last.
It’s hard to believe how long these machines have lasted. In good condition they’re running like new. They have surpassed VCR tapes, Laser discs, and it would appear DVD. Although DVD is tapering off due in part of on line movie services. I get it.
My first machines in 1977 were the Bell & Howell 1733BZ. Playback only, horribly expensive DJL bulb with a life of 15 hours back then costing $35.00. Soon after I stepped up to the Elmo ST1200D machines. Brand new with problems right out of the boxes. Within a year I was on the HD version which I still have today. Recently went inside installed new belts and put tuner cleaner on all potentiometers (volume & record knobs). In 2014 I went big time with the GS1200 and it is my favorite machine of all time. I've spent several thousand dollars obtaining them and several hundred having them serviced. But I am happy running films without many issues.
I chose not to have television in my house. I’m either on internet briefly for news weather sports, etc or I am running reels.
I worked hard for retirement and now I’m living the dream. Can’t get better than that.
I see that so far there is not much responders to my question . However i would like to thank Osi , Phil and Chip for their input . Very interesting indeed as to the variations of machines that are still giving good service since new .
Well Dave, although my workhorse projectors are a pair of GS1200's which I purchased used, the only projector I purchased new is a Eumig 820 Sonomatic, which I got from 47th Street Photo in NYC in 1990. It has performed flawlessly over the years, the only maintenance I have had to do is an occasional application of auto belt dressing to the rubber drive discs, to keep them from hardening up and losing grip to the motor drive ball.
In general I limit my use of all my Eumigs though, because I know the sound heads wear out pretty fast, particularly so the balance track head on the 900 stereo series. The GS1200's , I am convinced, will outlive all my Eumig's, mainly because the sound heads never seem to wear out, and because they are really solidly built with no cheap plastic parts to fail from stress cracking.
I purchased a "new" Elmo ST-800 in 2017. It was "new" in the sense that the woman that committed to buy it apparently never showed up and it was in the back room of a camera store until they went out of business. Suffice it to say things like belts were long-expired and I didn't just plug-and play but took a long time bringing the input voltage up because of all the electrolytic capacitors that needed to be re-formed.
-almost 8 years in-service: still going strong!
My other machines are kind of like restored sailing ships: so much new lumber in there that very little of the original ship remains. None of the others showed up here either "new" or new.
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