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David E. Nedrow
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Does anyone have a strategy for reducing the amount of "roll off" that I'm seeing with media that's taken up on the Kelmar film cleaner? I generally have to "touch" the cleaner every 40 minutes or so. Strangely, it's only the top media pad that runs off the take up roller. The lower pad has some un-eveness on the take up, but nothing like the top, which might end up with a one inch tail hanging off the take up.

-David

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John Wilson
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Make sure the end is feeding onto the reel straight on.

When you rewind, make sure the rewound media sits as flat as possible up against the back of the spindle. Don't let it fold though...

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Joe Redifer
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When I first saw this thread, I thought it was titled "Film cleaner media take up tragedies". I immediately knew what you were talking about. Some cleaners are just bad, I find. But yeah, putting the tape in the center and feeding it on to the take up core perfectly straight does help. Or you can try to install giant washers to act as flanges.

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David E. Nedrow
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"Film cleaner media take up tragedies"

Hah. I almost did have one of those when I forgot to tighten the takeup and the projector proceeded to ingest cleaning media along with the film.

I've thought about the washers, and can't see any drawback, at least on the upper takeup. Doesn't look like enough clearance on the bottom takeup, but then that one takes up with zero problem for me.

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Jeremy Weigel
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Any chance that your upper take up spindle is loose or bent? This could cause this symptom.

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Brad Miller
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This is generally caused by not taping the media to the takeup core straight. That being said, often the end of the media is cut slightly off and some people use that as a guide. Don't do that. Do a half wrap around the takeup core and use the edges of the media to line up with the edges of the takeup core and then tape it down. (Make sure your takeup core is truly seated all the way back.)

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David E. Nedrow
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I think the mechanics are true, so it may just be me not be careful enough with taping the end on. I was very careful this time, so we'll see how it goes. This is also the first batch of Film-Tech media where I'm not fooling around with media core transfers.

-David

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Joe Redifer
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You can cut the media in half for most normal-length films.

Also, it really helps to be extremely careful as you rewind the media. I usually don't have any problems with it taking up unevenly, but then someone else comes along, rewinds the media and then OH MY GOD! It is truly a tragedy and takes several minutes to rewind it after that show, trying to get it back to being straight.

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Brad Miller
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The trick to rewinding the media smoothly is to ensure your takeup cores SPIN FREELY once you have loosened the set screw.

Cardinal has found a replacement rubber insert solution which is excellent. I highly recommend anyone who has cleaners that when the thumbscrews are loosened the takeup cores don't spin effortlessly to demand some Cardinal replacements. Don't buy them from Kelmar, they fit too tight!

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Joe Redifer
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I cut notches out of the Kelmar rubbers.

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Barry Floyd
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are there such things as replacement cardboard cores for the take up rollers? Mine seem to be saturated with Film Guard and I can't get the tape to stick to them anymore.

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Chris Slycord
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If you've been buying film guard, wouldn't you have some of the plastic cores that the stuff got shipped with?

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Barry Floyd
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Not to sound stupid or anything, but can the black plastic media cores be used in place of the cardboard cores on the "take-up" side of the film cleaner. I've never tried to get the cardboard cores off. I always thought they were a part of the unit.

On my Kelmar cleaner, it has cardboard tubes over the take up spindles, and I can loosen the thumb screw to rewind them or tighten it up so the cleaner will wind the media. I bought this cleaner used. Is it possible the cardboard cores I thought were part of the machine was actually somebody elses left-over trash that I've been using over and over for 4 years?

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Darryl Spicer
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quote: Barry Floyd
Is it possible the cardboard cores I thought were part of the machine was actually somebody elses left-over trash that I've been using over and over for 4 years?

Yep

When you remove the cardboard tubes from the take-up make sure you get all three parts out of the core, if they are all there. There is like a rubber spacer that goes in the middle of the core to help keep the core from slipping on the take-up shaft.

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Chris Slycord
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quote: Barry Floyd
Not to sound stupid or anything, but can the black plastic media cores be used in place of the cardboard cores on the "take-up" side of the film cleaner. I've never tried to get the cardboard cores off. I always thought they were a part of the unit.
1) The reason that new kelmar cleaning pads tend to include an empty cardboard core is that they expect you to have tossed them after being used. I'd espesially toss them if I'd been using film-guarded pads on them as the cardboard usually became useless really quickly

2) Yes you can use the plastic cores on both ends. But just to avoid having some noobs get confused, you can turn the takeup core so that the rewinding mechanism is going inward (not showing to the outside).

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