WAY O/T - Ancient projector - who knows 'em?

[Neppy]

<font color="green"> I got this awhile back and don't know a thing about it. I'm not sure if I wanna keep it or what. Just need some info. Can't find anything on the web, except a picture of one that looks like mine and is dated 1933. It's a Siemens projector. That's pretty much what I know.

Ryan, if this is too off topic, remove it please. God knows I waste enough space here. </font>

[Neppy]

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[Neppy]

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[reece]

Me and the old lady have an 8mm and a super8 projector. Is yours an 8mm? Does it work? Hard to tell from pics. We occasionally buy reels of film off ebay. Abbot and Costello, 3 Stooges, etc. Also have a super8 camera that we use to make film clips. It's really cool to see your car on the big screen in black and white. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Fat Hack]

A friend of mine recently scored an antique film projector similar to that one from an old church when they were cleaning out the closests...

...he's been doing a resto on it for the past few months...got it working good enough to vies some of the reels of film that came with it.

Curious films for a church to have stashed away...a US Navy sponsored scuba training film was the first one he dusted off!!! Wild!

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[Neppy]

<font color="green"> This one is 16mm. I haven't been able to get it working. It just buzzed when I plugged it in. I'd love to find a few films for it. Three stooges, Abbott and Costello, even some old stag films would be funny to watch. Course, this is a pre-talky model I believe. Well, maybe I'll get it going someday.

Thanks guys. </font>

[C9]

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I haven't been able to get it working. It just buzzed when I plugged it in.

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It may have the same thing wrong with it that the 8mm projector I found in an orange orchard dump pit did.

Farmers used to scrape out a pit, throw trash in there, cover it up and dig another.
Anyway, found a cherry 40's era 8mm projector sitting in the dump during a dove hunt in the riverbed.

Like yours, it buzzed when turned on.
All that was wrong with it was the old grease on the sprockets had solidified and locked up.
(Pretty sure you know, but the sprockets are the smalled toothed wheels that pull the film through.)
Remove, clean, lube with white grease and you'll probably be in business.
That's all I had to do. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Neppy]

<font color="green"> Yeah, don't worry about me. I used to run a full size model of this, sorta. Worked at a drive in.

Anyway, the sprockets all are free. I can turn them by hand. All the internals seem OK. Chain drives and all. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Kinda neat to see the gears turning, watching the shutter wheel...er...shutter. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif It's a cool old piece. </font>