From: 40 Frames (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Dec 09 2008 - 12:39:07 PST
Please everyone, send your autoloaders to Tom, except those projectors with
cracked worm gears.
I'm imagining a giant (ANT FARM-like) pile of autoloaders, lighting them on
fire, and smashing a car into them.
--Alain
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Steve Polta <email suppressed> wrote:
> About every six months this comes up and I post that, in San Francisco, one
> can walk into a joint called Bearing Agencies and pick up belts/gaskets for
> a song. Seriously, sometimes they've just handed me the thing and said "pay
> me later" cuz the hassle of typing up an invoice was too much for them (the
> things are like 79 cents each). You can either bring in your old belt or
> bring in an appropriately sized loop of string. They are not a projector
> joint; they just sell loops of rubber to anyone who asks. They sometimes ask
> "Are you sealing or driving?"
>
> It's likely that many cities have similar belt/gasket supply houses.
>
> Steve Polta
>
>
>
> --- On Tue, 12/9/08, k. a.r. <email suppressed> wrote:
>
> > From: k. a.r. <email suppressed>
> > Subject: Re: projector belts
> > To: email suppressed
> > Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 11:04 AM
> > Hello. I you can't find the specific belt you need from
> > other sources,
> > or it costs an arm and a leg for original parts, try
> > looking for an
> > o-ring supplier. I work a lot of medical conventions, and
> > one time saw this display
> > of o-rings of many sizes. I was told there are many
> > companies that sell them, and
> > you can order them by diameter and thickness.
> >
> > Also, I like my auto loader, it works just fine.
> >
> >
> >
> > Kristie Reinders, B.F.A.
> >
> > Director of Cinematography, Electric Visions
> >
> > Curator and Head Projectionist, Electric Mural Project
> >
> > The Mission, San Francisco, CA
> >
> >
> >
> > 'A first class technician should work best under
> > pressure.'
> >
> > - - - Issac Asimov
> >
> >
> >
> > Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 22:31:38 -0800
> > From: email suppressed
> > Subject: Re: [FRAMEWORKS] projector belts
> > To: email suppressed
> >
> > Amanda,
> >
> > The following is a good source for Eiki parts.
> >
> > Richard Burgess
> >
> > 2232 Loch Lomond Drive
> >
> > Vienna, VA 22181
> >
> > (703) 255-2554
> >
> > email suppressed
> >
> >
> > Also, Dwight Cody of the Boston Film Connection may have
> > Eiki parts on hand or know of a source close to you.
> >
> >
> > For Bell & Howell try Larry Urbanski in Illinois. In
> > fact, if you want to find 16mm projector parts go to
> > www.16mmfilmtalk.com, these
> >
> > folks are much better organized than the exp film community
> > when it comes to 16mm supplies and parts. The forum is
> > actually run
> > by Urbanski.
> >
> > BTW, get rid of that autoloader, those projectors should be
> > cast off into landfills, or the ocean, don't project
> > film on them.
> >
> >
> >
> > --Alain
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 8:45 AM, amanda christie
> > <email suppressed> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > greetings frameworkers...
> >
> > this summer i posted about DIY projector belt repair... but
> > now, i'm looking to buy actual "proper" belts.
> >
> > while it was fun to make my own belts out of fuel injection
> > tubing and super glue... and it did work for a while in a
> > pinch... over time, the fuel injection tubing belts
> > stretched and i was back to prodding the take up reel along
> > with my fingers...
> >
> >
> > so where should i go to order proper belts for the
> > following projectors? i'ill be ordering from canada and
> > will need to have them shipped.
> >
> > Eiki RT-0 (16mm manual load)
> > Bell & Howell Filmosound model 2585A (16mm autoload)
> >
> >
> >
> > thanks so much,
> >
> > amanda
> >
> >
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> > Pamela Minty
> > 425 SE 3rd #400
> > Portland, OR 97214
> > United States
> >
> > +1 503 231 6548
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> >
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