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Topic: Replacement Traps (Century)
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Randy Stankey
Film God
Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 01-19-2000 06:41 PM
At TT-17, we have a couple of proj. with bent trap castings. (The "horns" that hold the lat. guide wheels) -- The bone heads that bent them are all "gone". Trouble is, we're still stuck with the busted equip.We're thinking about replacing them (2) with the Kelmar (SA-TA) 'retrofit'traps. The idea is that we can put the new traps in the two big houses and put the traps from those two in the busted ones. Those ones could then be used for spare parts... Anybody have experience with these? Are they truly drop-in / plug-and-play ? Of course, the aperture plates need to be swapped so they stay in their orig. houses... Are they really worth it, or would it be better to get O.E.M. parts? (OR, is there another mfg. that makes better parts?) I've heard that the Kelmar ones are good, but I haven't really seen them. Any feedback?
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Randy Stankey
Film God
Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 01-19-2000 10:57 PM
I've tried to straighten the 'horns' out and have done a fair job of it, if I say so myself, but to tell the truth, once they've been bent there's no way to get them back to 100%.You have to be very careful not to bust the horns off when you bend them back and you can't really tell just how far back to bend them. You can only 'eyeball' them. I just did the best I could, realigned the lat. guide wheels and told the tech. about it next time I saw him. He used the alignment guage on it and said it was about as good as it can be. (After he worked on it.) At this point it's either replace it or live with it, he said. Like you said, just the new CASTING costs $700! You still have to take all the parts off your old trap and put them all togehter CORRECTLY. With the aperture changer, that's a lot of work! I figure IF the new traps from Kelmar are truly a drop-in, plug-and-play replacement, (Or at least MOSTLY), it'll be worth it. That way you won't have to fiddle around getting things right and you won't have to call the tech. to re-align everything. (PLUS you've got a few spare parts!)
http://www.kelmarsystems.com/page26.html
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