I come in and feel the action of the projector and the projector jams every fourth movement of the intermittent. It turns backwards smoothly.

Well, I guess there wasn't enough oil in the machine. He tells me that there wasn't any splashing on the glass in the back. (If you guessed simplex-XL, you are correct.)

Well, I have downloaded the important parts of the manual from the Manuals section of Film-Tech. I have ordered a new intermittent assembly from my cinema supplier for Saturday delivery. Hopefully I can get it installed and running properly for our shows on Saturday.

Wish me luck and if anybody has any tips or tricks let me know.

You've relearned an expensive lesson about the importance of checking the oil level on a regular basis, ideally, daily.

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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Eastman Kodak Company
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7419
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: 716-477-5325 Fax: 716-722-7243
E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com

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If there are any teeth missing or damaged on the intermittent drive gear (fibre), look in the sump to see if there are any pieces down there. Eventurally one will get sucked up through the strainer and get pumped around.

Your intermittent can most probably be rebuilt to good or better than new condition. E-mail me if you are interested.

Steve

The intermittent is not compleatly frozen, John. But it hangs on every fourth rotation. So one star cam is messed up. We have a couple of slow films so we are doubling them up in one auditorium. Ah, the pleasures of a multiplex. We only have one film title that is raking in the dough (Best in Show) so that isn't affected. I might try your suggestion if I were deperate, but I don't want to trash the fiber gear just to rake in an extra $200.00 in Box Office. I suspect that the public will grouse about it but come to the later show.

Nothing concetrates the mind like the spector of death or a busted intermittent.

I came into work this morning to wait for the UPS driver to bring me a new intermittent. My first show is at 1:00 PM.

At 12:15 PM he arrives. I run upstairs with the new intermittent. I have already removed the old one. I try to put the new one in. It is a tight fit. I try tapping it with a hammer. Doesn't work. I wiggle it around and finally it seats. I tighten the screws, put oil in the beast and start up the motor.

Ah! It runs like a sewing machine! I thread up the film and try to motor it along. No luck. What! The intermittent isn't driving the sprocket. I un-thread the machine. I open the back up and find two screw heads. I think where do these go? I grab the flywheel to see if it turns and it comes off in my hand.

The screws that hold the flywheel on the shaft have sheared off and the shafts are in the threads.

So I try to put the old intermittent back in because we are 5 minutes past show time and there is a paying audience in there. But it doesn't work. It is loud and shaky and since I didn't get a chance to adjust the shutter there is a mean travel ghost. I refund the show and there I am.

I am going to try to use my drill to back out the screw shafts.

I use the old screws from the old intermittent and put the new one back in. I timed the shutter and it looks like we are good to go.

We should re-title this thread...

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