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Author Topic: Projector oil for NORELCO AA-II Jon Paul Johns Film Handler Posts: 18 From: Oklahoma city,Oklahoma/United States Registered: Nov 2005 posted 11-08-2006 02:58 AM                     What is the best and only the best brand, type, synthetic nonsynthetic and weight of oil to use for NORELCO AA-II?  |  IP: Logged Floyd Justin Newton Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 559 From: Phoenix, Arizona, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 11-08-2006 06:42 AM                     Contact Mark G. at Glaco. He's The Pro in this area!  |  IP: Logged Ian Woloschin Film Handler Posts: 54 From: Worcester, MA, USA Registered: Mar 2006 posted 11-08-2006 08:29 AM                        If you don't get an answer from Mark G. I can go and check in my booth what we use. I'm not sure if we're using the best oil for the Norelco AA-II's, but in the past three years I've worked with the projectors I've never had a problem with the oil (apart from it slowly leaking out everywhere!).  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-08-2006 09:09 AM                     We stock the equivelent of the original DP-70 oil... I think Shell Turbo or something like that. We also stock many new 35mm parts at very affordable prices for the DP-70... Gate Bands, compound curved runner for improved focus and image stability, VKF sprockets, Pad Rollers, Lateral guide Rollers, etc. You name it we have it for that machine! Call Vince at 801-355-1250  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-08-2006 09:34 AM                     Shell Turbo is indeed the stuff for the AAII. If you download the Theatre Service Instructions from this site's manual section, look at TSI #6. Kinoton America stocks the oil tool. The key is to keep the oil clean and fresh, check the filter screen regularly and clean off the metal from the screen (there is a magnet there to collect any metal filings in the oil).  |  IP: Logged John McConnel Expert Film Handler Posts: 118 From: Okmulgee, OK USA Registered: Nov 2003 posted 11-08-2006 10:13 PM                        Jon Paul, are you by any chance with the Tower Theatre in Oklahoma City? If so, how's it going?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-09-2006 09:00 AM                     John, How's your DP-75 running these days? Mark  |  IP: Logged Bob Koch Expert Film Handler Posts: 183 From: williams ca Registered: Nov 2001 posted 11-11-2006 05:58 PM                     Although the manual specified Shell Turbo, I think this was because of of Shell being a Dutch Corporation. Although I think the AA 11 was the finest projector built in my time, I always used Texaco Calpella A in the Norelco and other projectors. Anyone who has ever taken the valve cover off an overhead cam engine that has used Shell oil should know why.The varnish deposits on the machined surfaces of the cams tells it all. Once a supply dealer in S.F. was sending out gallon cans marked "Century Projector Oil" to a large circuit. I noticed the gear side of the Century`s started having the white interiors stained this same brownish hue. I said to the dealers mechanic; "If I didnt know better, I`d think there was Shell oil in those cans". He told me they were buying the oil from a Shell distributor in the bay area.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-12-2006 04:26 PM                     Westrex also specified Shell turbo in several of there machines  |  IP: Logged John McConnel Expert Film Handler Posts: 118 From: Okmulgee, OK USA Registered: Nov 2003 posted 11-12-2006 10:13 PM                        Mark, Our DP-75 has been in service a year, and is running well. Thanks for suggesting we use it. This fall, we put new nylon gate parts in it, and that's all it's had to have. We kept the V-18 beside it for backup, but it's never been used.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-13-2006 06:30 AM                     Bob, I have never seen the type of build up in the almost 80 DP-70 that I service and many of these have been in service since the 50's as you know. They are in fact VERY clean inside. I think you will find that heat causes that residue to accumulate in car engines while in porjectors we don't have near that kind of heat... and the DP-70 has the best water cooling of all..... Mark  |  IP: Logged Bob Koch Expert Film Handler Posts: 183 From: williams ca Registered: Nov 2001 posted 11-13-2006 12:53 PM                     Mark: My point was that other oils in ohcs engines;i.e.Havoline, Texaco, Standard Delo Special; Castrol;Pennzoil etc; do not leave this residue.  |  IP: Logged

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