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Author Topic: Help Identifying Christie AW3 Part # Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 10-17-2011 09:55 AM                     I'm trying to locate a "mystery part" that does not seem to show up on any of the exploded parts diagrams in either the hard-copy Christie manual I have or the ones online. It's part of the whole "Return Arm Assembly" seen here. The specific part is the piece which bolts to the very end of the 'return arm' and pivots in the 'cam housing' and which is located between my fingers in this photo. There's supposed to be a plastic (or maybe teflon) cam at the end of the little 'tit' here that transfers the return arm motion to the speed control mechanism under the brain. That's what's broken off. I seriously doubt they sell that cam seperately, you probably have to buy that whole 'pivot piece'. THE PROBLEM IS- - THIS PART DOES NOT SEEM TO EXIST IN ANY OF THE DOCUMENTATION I'VE CHECKED The closest thing on the Christie parts diagrams is #29 (which is Christie Part # 193473-001) and is identified as a "Return Arm Cam Housing) But that is NOT it. If you order that part, all you get is the Housing (shell) that the mystery piece piviots in. I need the part that's outlined in red. Does anyone know the proper part name and number? THANKS!  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-17-2011 10:10 AM                     The silly nylon piece is all you want? Try 193081-001 Do you need the pin-spr....er latch lever spring (looks like a ball point pen spring? 515610-028. Both in-stock. -Steve  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 10-17-2011 10:34 AM                     Thanks Steve- But for my own piece of mind- - Is that "silly part" on any of the parts diagrams or am I (and the others who here who looked) all going crazy and/or senile? And they do actually sell that little plastic cam seperately? I assumed I'd have to buy that whole assembly it's attached to. Thanks again for the info. -JimC-  |  IP: Logged Pete Lawrence Expert Film Handler Posts: 192 From: Middleburg, PA Registered: Aug 1999 posted 10-17-2011 12:35 PM                     I believe the pictures below are the plastic part Jim is missing. The spring Steve speaks of is just visible from the underside.  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 10-17-2011 03:23 PM                     Yes, that's it. (thanx for the excellent pix) But I'mm still not 100% sure about the actual part number that Steve suggested. When I cross reference that number online, it comes back as a "clamp, filter lever" . It seems to me I'm looking for a "cam", not a "Clamp" Whatever it is, I need one to get one of my platter deck-thingys running again!  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-17-2011 08:31 PM                     I guarantee that is it...note it is depicted in the manuals.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-18-2011 04:28 PM                     Yep! Thats a part that SHOLDA BEEN MADE from die cast or cnc. Look at one of those buggers cross eyed and it crumbles to pieces. The older they get the more brittle and so on. It's the single 3 cent part that ruined an other wise perfect platter system!! Mark  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-18-2011 05:13 PM                     Pulled from one of the later manuals: It is item 2. Note the new fancy return spring...a torsion type...never saw a Christie with one of them...mine all had the ball point pen spring shown in the pictures above. -Steve  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 10-21-2011 08:31 AM                     Thanks Steve! None of the manuals I have, or even the ones here on Film Tech have that part number, or the illustration you provided here in them.  |  IP: Logged

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