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Author Topic: kelmar media cleaner trouble Jeff Else Expert Film Handler Posts: 125 From: Detroit, MI, USA Registered: Nov 2006 posted 12-16-2008 04:40 PM                     I am having extreme difficulty getting film-tech keys/cores (whatever they are called) on to and off one of the take up shafts on my kelmar media cleaner. Also, even when the thumbscrew is completely loose, i cannot spin the core so as to rewind the media. Its as if the rubber piece in the assembly is just too big. What can i do to remedy this?  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-16-2008 04:48 PM                     Hi Jeff The cores on the take up side are meant to be tight...sometimes they are too tight though. I may be wrong, but I seem to recall a post somewhere here that said Brad would send you some of the older FT cores that had a larger diameter if you needed them. We have some from the early days of FG that we use as take-ups for this very reason.  |  IP: Logged Tyler Potts Expert Film Handler Posts: 159 From: Anderson, SC, USA Registered: Sep 2008 posted 12-16-2008 06:10 PM                       when I pulled our kelmar units out of the rubble of the spare parts room to start using FG again, they had cores stuck to the take up shafts. I would tape the new roll onto the old core, then have to pull off the media pads when it finished. I got tired of this and used an x-acto knife to take off the cores, then to shave down the rubber in the middle of the shafts. I later removed the rubber entirely (which allowed new cores to slip on and off of the take up shaft) but then it wouldn't spin correctly and put new rubber middle back on. If you're having a hard time, I'd suggest taping the media directly to the take up shaft. While the instructions note being able to reuse the media once its rolled entirely to take up, I've never had it roll properly after an entire use.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-16-2008 06:46 PM                     Surely your media runs too slow by that method.  |  IP: Logged Tyler Potts Expert Film Handler Posts: 159 From: Anderson, SC, USA Registered: Sep 2008 posted 12-16-2008 07:19 PM                       How is it supposed to move faster? either it moves at the speed of the takeup (from being taped to it or the core being too tight against the takeup), or it doesn't move at all because the core isn't turning.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-16-2008 07:35 PM                     Jeff, send me a private email with your address and I'll drop a couple of cores with a larger inner diameter in the mail to you. The other solution is to buy replacement rubber inserts (they DO wear out with time). Cardinal Sound has the best replacement inserts.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-16-2008 07:45 PM                     quote: Tyler Potts I'd suggest taping the media directly to the take up shaft Perhaps I misunderstood...I read that you were taping directly to the shaft...sans core.  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 12-16-2008 09:01 PM                     I simply left the 'take-up' cardboard cores on the spindle, and unwound the used media.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-17-2008 02:46 AM                     That's how you're supposed to do it...but for some reason people like to go through the extra effort of physically removing the core and then putting it back on.  |  IP: Logged Jeff Else Expert Film Handler Posts: 125 From: Detroit, MI, USA Registered: Nov 2006 posted 01-02-2009 03:33 PM                     Got the larger cores and all is working well now!! Thanks much, Brad, and to all else who helped!  |  IP: Logged

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