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Author Topic: PRO 35 Issue - Please help. Julius Alan Vichinsky Film Handler Posts: 18 From: Postfalls, ID. Registered: Mar 2005 posted 01-02-2012 02:37 PM                        Hello, I could spend a great deal of time explaining whats going on however I took a video of the issue. This has never happened in my time here (14 years). Thoughts? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJiKJ56B7qs&context=C3ab78d5ADOEgsToPDskJ3n9WEkpllgadIwh33GcVq As you can see the final sprocket is spinning too slow. Belts are all perfect. Thank you in advance for your assistance. The film in the projector is a bunch of trailers spliced together. The "ding" at the end of the recording is me hitting the drop light behind me.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-02-2012 02:54 PM                        Have you checked the sprocket to see if it is correctly attached to the shaft? Or if the shaft is correctly attached to the gear? It looks like something is spinning but not getting a grip.  |  IP: Logged Julius Alan Vichinsky Film Handler Posts: 18 From: Postfalls, ID. Registered: Mar 2005 posted 01-02-2012 03:00 PM                        The sprocket is tight on the lower shaft, however upon further investigation the shaft can spin freely without causing the other sprockets to turn. EDIT: Problem solved after removing our heads from our .... well you get it. thanks. (dam set screw)  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-02-2012 04:25 PM                     Good call Martin. I had one of those events on a Simplex when the Altec tech forgot to tighten the screw on a gear when he replaced the shaft in the sound head. Very frightening when you have a theatre full of customers. KEN  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-02-2012 06:10 PM                     I take it this is an existing system and not one you just installed or assembled. If you need any more of them for parts I just pulled out two of them in Elko, NV. The last two Pro 35's I had to service... One was a very good runner, the other a very good leaker. You could probably go haul them away... Mark  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 01-02-2012 06:16 PM                        One of he few blessings of the Digital age; removing that which so desperately needs to be removed! Louis  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-02-2012 08:05 PM                     I couldn't agree more Louis!! I always questioned the "Pro" aspect of the name.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 01-02-2012 11:29 PM                        What? Another machine that could have the term "Valdez" added to its name?  |  IP: Logged

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