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Author Topic: Anyone got a CENTURY R3 manual? Pete Naples Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1565 From: Dunfermline, Scotland Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-24-2009 11:52 AM                     As it says, does anyone (I'm thinking probably Gordon), have a manual for a real Century R3 rep-set? I'm looking for parts listings in particular Not the ORC or Strong version with the ball bearings on the sprocket shaft, the Century Projector Corp New York version with the Oilite bronze bushes on the sprocket shaft. Answers on a postcard...  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-24-2009 05:26 PM                     We probably do. I've uploaded a bunch of stuff that hasn't been posted yet though so I don't know how fast, if we have the manual, and I get time to scan it. However, if you download the TR4 manual, you might find what you need...it is an old-school manual. Steve  |  IP: Logged Pete Naples Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1565 From: Dunfermline, Scotland Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-25-2009 03:21 AM                     Alas not, the TR4 variant has ballbearings on the main shaft if I'm reading that correctly. The two I'm dealing with must be real oldies!  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-25-2009 08:26 AM                     Wolk normally has the bushings and that shaft version if you need them... They are actually much longer lived than the ball beraing type is... the ball bearings were way to small for the job! Mark  |  IP: Logged Pete Naples Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1565 From: Dunfermline, Scotland Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-25-2009 09:01 AM                     Mark, those are exactly what I'm looking for. 'Others' have been at the poor thing and made a right pigs aural appendage out of it.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-25-2009 12:00 PM                     Pete, I've not quite found the manual you are looking for but I have gone back as far as 1966. There, under obsolete parts they list the BU-822 bushing and two different types of main shafts...the ST-522 for the R3A/R5A and the ST-1123 for the R3B and R5B. [UPDATE]...going back to a 1962 drawing...the soundhead had already gone to ball bearings (Everything is ball bearings as "Fletch" would say). Anyway, that drawing states that R3s used BU-126 bushings (oil cup lubrication) and ST-552 shafts. Steve  |  IP: Logged William T. Parr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 823 From: Cedar Park, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-25-2009 12:15 PM                     quote: Steve Guttag (Everything is ball bearings as "Fletch" would say). Now all you needs is 40 gallons of Antifreeze, preferably Quaker State. And if Leroy show up before I get back, have him start preping that Fetzer Valve.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 03-25-2009 03:27 PM                        If you want to convert to ball bearings, we (Hadden) offer a kit to change the geometry to allow R3B parts. (stock ball bearings and shaft.) Works great on standard drive Centurys. Untried to convert to direct drive. Louis  |  IP: Logged Pete Naples Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1565 From: Dunfermline, Scotland Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-25-2009 06:34 PM                     Steve, thank you! This is of enormous help. Louis... interesting, I will have a chat with the client.  |  IP: Logged

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