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Author Topic: Ballantyne LA100 Lens Changer Larry Zuverink Film Handler Posts: 98 From: Caledonia, MI, USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 10-08-2003 09:33 AM                     If anyone is interested I found a replacement motor gear for the LA100 newer model. I know fo two models, The older uses a little larger gear and the newer a little smaller. The gear is a Berg F24U6-30. I just had to drill the two holes for 4-32 mounting screws. The other gears should be available I jsut haven't sized them yet. Hope this helps someone.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 10-08-2003 08:23 PM                     Thanks, Larry. I have noted the only motor failures I hae had with the LA-100 is bearing faulure - especially the aperature changer motor. Normally when they start getting sluggish, I dismantle the motor and clean the bearings up. The motors are impedance protected and rarely burn out. Since those motors are stopping on "stall", they get hotter than a popcorn fart and the grease in the bearings crystalize. Hence, it is like someone pouring Poly-Grip into the bearings.  |  IP: Logged Larry Zuverink Film Handler Posts: 98 From: Caledonia, MI, USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 10-09-2003 02:04 PM                     Ya, we have to periodically do the same. Over all we have had very few problems with them. We do only have 9 in the whole circuit though. Your right about the motors heating up. That is what caused the plastic gear to fail(melt).  |  IP: Logged

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