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Author Topic: Vic 5 intermittent overhaul Garry Knapp Film Handler Posts: 50 From: Mississauga Ontario Canada Registered: Oct 2016 posted 03-26-2017 06:53 AM                        Hi guys... Anyone ever have this unit out/apart? I have discovered this one has a leak...looks like an input shaft seal...  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-26-2017 10:31 AM                     Seals shouldn't be a big deal, and the seal number should be on the end of the seal itself someplace. Or pop it out and take it to a local bearing place to get a new one, then tap the new one back in place using the flat end a 1/2" drive deep well socket. Movements are not hard to disassemble but leave the bushings in place. It's highly likely that either the Star or the Cam bushing is eccentric to allow for adjusting the radius clearance and you don't really want to mess with that unless you have some experience setting it correctly. Mark  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-26-2017 03:37 PM                     The seal on a v5 is a rubber ring with a spring in it There is a special tool to remove the old one and insert the new one I assume that you could order them from Cinemecanica dealer  |  IP: Logged Garry Knapp Film Handler Posts: 50 From: Mississauga Ontario Canada Registered: Oct 2016 posted 03-26-2017 05:14 PM                        thanks for the great info. I may have to make that tool since cinemechannica doesn't answer any emails... and i believe they are completely out of the film biz by now... the seals in this doesn't sound like a hard job at all now.. thanks guys  |  IP: Logged Allan Lyman Film Handler Posts: 35 From: COPENHAGEN, S /copenhagen,denmark Registered: Apr 2016 posted 03-27-2017 05:36 AM                     be very careful not to scratch the spindle,when taking out the seal.then you will still have a leak.  |  IP: Logged Pete Naples Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1565 From: Dunfermline, Scotland Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-28-2017 03:24 PM                     I echo what Gordon said, the seal tool is a must. Other than that's it's pretty straightforward.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-28-2017 10:41 PM                     some where i still have my kit for doing them but you shouldnt have disassembled the intermitent  |  IP: Logged

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