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| Author: | Frank Moloney [ Tue Apr 16, 2013 11:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted Soundhead Elmo ST180 |
Hi Erik, Yes I'm sure you are right. I'm surprised after looking at Ebay myself how expensive some items are, and how much cheaper they are here in little New Zealand. I'm selling an Elmo GS1200 locally and will struggle to get NZ$1250. On Ebay they can sell for a couple of grand $US or more. |
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| Author: | Erik Schoolcraft [ Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted Soundhead Elmo ST180 |
Exactly Frank. Sorry you had a bad experience with the sound head on a really good projector but on here I've been able to buy projectors in way better condition from people who know what they have for way less. I've bought in the last couple years two twin Eumig Dual 8 sound projectors for $200 each and both showed up ready to run and still run perfectly. Through this forum I've also bought 2 ST1200 Elmo's for under $200 each and although they both needed new belts I wound up with great long-play projectors. I haven't had just great deals on this forum but I've made several lifelong friends who know what they are buying and selling. If you hang out here for awhile you'll see people know what they are dealing with. Also you'll always have help with anything you find or are looking for along the way in the collecting market. There are a lot of long time collectors here that have seen it all. |
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| Author: | Frank Moloney [ Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted Soundhead Elmo ST180 |
Me included since about 1955 actually Erik. *grin* I guess I'm one of those "older guys" you mentioned earlier. Most projectors I've bought in recent years are from local NZ online auctions at quite low prices compared to Ebay etc. Unfortunately spare parts are not abundant here so in order to meet requirements for parts it's necessary to buy complete projectors and make one goodie from two. I didn't expect new or used sound heads to be so expensive from a US supplier. Thankfully I've now been offered some from an Australian collector for AUD35 including postage so all's well that will hopefully end well. |
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| Author: | Erik Schoolcraft [ Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted Soundhead Elmo ST180 |
I really am glad to hear that Frank. By the way I am one of the 'old guys' and we are always here to help. I started collecting when I was about 11-12 yrs old when my grandfather gave me his old 8mm silent Revere to repair and use. Back then swap meets always had films lying around. Fast forward some 20 plus years and now films and people who know projectors are much easier to find and connect with. |
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| Author: | Frank Moloney [ Thu Apr 18, 2013 11:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted Soundhead Elmo ST180 |
It's this "internet" Erik. Makes it so much easier to connect with everyone around the world and ask questions when my/our/your experience lets us down. In the 1980's I decided to learn about basic electronics and then a few years later it became necessary to learn about computers so I could repair my own. It's surprising how electronics and also computers change so rapidly that things learned previously can be contradicted a short while after being understood. The same now applies to movie projection with the closing of film and the dawning of the digital era. It's great to have a forum such as this, to help others and to be helped. You mentioned starting your interest with movie projectors at the age of 11 or 12. My interest also began at age 11 when I got a job selling icecreams in our local cinema and at the same time started to learn about running the Zeiss Ikon Ernemann 5's that the cinema had bought not long before that time, to replace a pair of Ernemann 2's. That was 1955. Another cinema business I later bought, had a pair of Walturdaw 5 projectors, which were a copy of Ernemann 5's but the Walturdaws didn't run as well as the Zeiss machines and leaked oil as well. Anyway, this thread may now be a bit off topic, so I'd better return to the matter of the sound heads. The ones I'm getting from Australia are new and the low cost makes the whole job worthwhile. The ST180 is in near new condition and the sound heads from the ST600 I mentioned earlier are working as they should, so the new ones will go into the ST600 saving me the task of swapping back the old ones. |
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| Author: | Erik Schoolcraft [ Sun May 19, 2013 11:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Wanted Soundhead Elmo ST180 |
Glad to hear that you can restore it Frank. We don't have the same 35mm's that you have over there but was happy to work and manage the oldest film projection theater in town with two Simplex machines adapted when I got there to Dolby Digital. The projectors were installed in 1936 and were still running current films like champs when we closed down a few years ago from competition. We had 2 huge screens, the other theater has 8 tiny screens and terrible sound. Good work on the Elmo's though. They are the best for home super 8 projection. |
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