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Author Topic: Strong MUT Rollers Adam Lautenbach Film Handler Posts: 9 From: Beloit, WI, US Registered: Feb 2009 posted 07-30-2009 10:27 PM                    Are the rollers on Strong make up tables different than the rollers on Strong platters? I want to make sure they aren't special high speed rollers or something. Probably a dumb question. We have one mut that has a mixture of rollers with different type bearings. They were probably swapped from other muts over the years as rollers broke. I found some rollers in storage that apear to be the same as platter rollers and I want to put them on one of the muts that doesn't have rollers left. Here's a photo of the two different kind of rollers. The one on the left are the ones I found and are on all of our platters.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-30-2009 11:00 PM                     The MUTs use the metal shielded bearings. The other rollers are typically the open nylon type. I have some that run the shielded for everything (quieter, among other things)  |  IP: Logged Luke Anderson Film Handler Posts: 25 From: Spokane, Wa Unites States Registered: Jun 2009 posted 07-30-2009 11:09 PM                    The roller on the left is a light duty type of rollor (notice all the plastic in the bearing). It also has alot less balls As you stated the one on the right goes on MUTs and is made to travel at high speeds and with more pressure on the roller and its components. You can put the MUT roller onto a platter but it is a bit of over kill, however I would never put a platter roller on a MUT due to all the plastic, it would not hold up to the speed or pressure needed and fail pretty quickly ending with some pretty messed up sections of film. -Luke  |  IP: Logged Jarret Chessell Master Film Handler Posts: 288 From: London, Ontario, Canada Registered: Jan 2009 posted 07-30-2009 11:18 PM                     Aren't they the same part number? I've got exposed bearings on all the MUTs I've used. The only ones I've ever had fail were from masking tape on the reels... and I've never seen one just seize up, usually they just make annoying sounds until you get tired of it and change it. If they're wearing them down really quick I'd be worried they're running the MUT too fast. At any rate, you might be better off with the sealed ones, but depending on cost and availability it wont do any harm.  |  IP: Logged Luke Anderson Film Handler Posts: 25 From: Spokane, Wa Unites States Registered: Jun 2009 posted 07-31-2009 12:37 AM                    Its no the fact that the bearings are sealed or not sealed, it's the fact that one is mostly plastic. It takes alot longer and more stress to wear out anything metal like the mut roller on the right compared to ones on a platter tree 9left)that have plastic cores filled with a few metal ball bearings in it. -Luke  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 07-31-2009 06:09 AM                     quote: The roller on the left is a light duty type of roller ..belongs on the platters since both platter and MUT used the same rollers. Actually, the nylon light duty is a revised roller from the original metal open race roller that were common on older STRONG ALPHA/A3 platters.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 07-31-2009 06:28 AM                        I really like the plastic rollers, but only in low speed applications (not the MUT). Alas, only metal bearing rollers are still available, I believe. Louis  |  IP: Logged

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