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Author Topic: ORC Platter motors Ken McFall Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 615 From: Haringey, London. Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-18-2006 04:11 PM                     Hi Guy's... Can anyone confirm for me the size of the bearings in these motors. I have a number of them to rebuild, all working except the bearings are shot! Unable to find anything in the manual and there is nothing on the bearings. I think they may be R8 & R6 type am I correct. Also the brushes for the same motors, size etc.... Any help would be appreciated.  |  IP: Logged John Eickhof Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 588 From: Wendell, ID USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 01-26-2006 05:25 PM                        Hi Ken, are they the old style motors that mount inside the upright column? If so, I may still have some NOS ones! I also have lots of new parts for the payout heads that have the potentiometer drive...  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Worthing Master Film Handler Posts: 384 From: Hereford, UK Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-27-2006 03:54 AM                     Ken What mesurement do you get with a Vernier Caliper. Can you post a pic of a broken one.  |  IP: Logged Dave Callaghan Film Handler Posts: 60 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Registered: Jan 2003 posted 02-07-2006 06:57 PM                     The ORC CP302 platter that I'm most familiar with has motors from more than one manufacturer - Indiana General and Specialty - so manufacturer's differences could be possible with the bearings. The bearings I've replaced have been R6 at the brush end and R8 at the other end (i.e. an R6 and an R8 in the same motor). The brushes are also different for the Specialty and the Indiana General. Specialty uses an A7-1, Indiana General an A43-1. Cross-section of each looks the same, but the A43-1 is a little longer. The metal ends soldered to the wire are also different.  |  IP: Logged Peter Hall Master Film Handler Posts: 314 From: London, UK Registered: Dec 2000 posted 02-16-2006 01:35 PM                        What a pleasure to hear that you are still in the same place Ken. Check out the FOR SALE adverts in this forum - we have a pile of these motors, some new I believe, as well as at least a dozen feed units, two make up tables and lots more. Keen for these to go to a new home however need to sell before 1 March. DO keep in touch xx Peter, Ben, Stuart, Mark and all your friends here  |  IP: Logged Ken McFall Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 615 From: Haringey, London. Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-18-2006 09:12 AM                     Not a pleasure to hear from you Mr. Hall. Please don't do it again. Oh and you would be the last person this cinema would buy from... but then you know that already! From none of your friends here!  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-18-2006 03:10 PM                         |  IP: Logged Ken McFall Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 615 From: Haringey, London. Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-18-2006 03:18 PM                     Hi Leo, thanks for that. I'm sure you have a good idea of where I'm coming from. All things considered he has a nerve even suggesting that the owner of the cinema in question would consider buying anything from him again. Once bitten twice shy comes to mind.  |  IP: Logged David Graham Rose Expert Film Handler Posts: 187 From: Cambridge, UK Registered: Sep 2002 posted 02-24-2006 02:12 AM                     Greetings For Goodness sake Ken - calm down it's only a platter motor. Now go and pour yourself a large one, lace up, and get that show on the road. Then have another large one and give dear old Peterkins a call and make up. David  |  IP: Logged Ken McFall Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 615 From: Haringey, London. Registered: Apr 2001 posted 02-24-2006 05:38 AM                     If only it was just a platter motor .....  |  IP: Logged David Graham Rose Expert Film Handler Posts: 187 From: Cambridge, UK Registered: Sep 2002 posted 02-25-2006 06:21 AM                     Was it a case of PMT as well?  |  IP: Logged

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