Film damage from projector

[Dominic3]

I projected 2 films through my spare projector yesterday and it has been a disaster - the entire left hand side of the films have been scratched!!

The projector is a reliable manual threading Eumig, so I am struggling to identify the cause.......any advice???

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[MikeBrantley]

Clean it, blow it out and put some lemon furniture wax on anything the film touches. I'm serious! (Well, doesn't have to be lemon.) Run some scratch-free test footage you don't care about through the projector to see if it still scratches the film.

Good luck!

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--Mike Brantley

[Dominic3]

Thank you Mike!

I will attempt this tomorrow - I laughed at the "lemon furniture wax" but I will give it a try.

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[Dominic3]

Mike,

I thoroughly cleaned the inside of the projector as you suggested, however, it still scratches the film.......(only slightly less than before).

I can not work out what is causing this - it is the right hand side of the film that is getting scratched all along the perforation and on a section of the film, (the left side when projected on the screen).

Is this the end of the life of my spare Eumig?

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[MikeBrantley]

Hmmmm.... something is obviously wrong. I can't envision this model right now. Is part or most of the film path obstructed from view during operation, or is there a way to really study every inch of where the film goes without total disassembly? Somwhere, there must be some sort of rough area or something.

I don't know what to suggest. If it was a high-end Elmo I'd say send it to Irv Higdon for repair. But maybe you could get another projector for a lot less than repairs go for these days.

Good luck! Sorry I can't think of something else to tell you, but maybe someone else has some ideas.

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--Mike Brantley

[Dominic3]

I appreciate your help Mike.

I will take the projector apart again and go through the path that the film follows, perhaps I missed an area.

Thanks again.

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