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Topic: My film gate won't close right....Plus filing a plate
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Jack Ondracek
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Posts: 2348
From: Port Orchard, WA, USA
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 05-11-2004 10:12 PM
...from Scott: quote: Scott Norwood Also, leave the gates closed overnight. In theory, the springs will wear out more quickly if you leave the gates open.
If this is true, which is best?... leave the gate open and take the tension off the bands (on a curved gate), or close the gate, keep the bands under tension, but relax the spring?
I don't recall where I learned it, but I've cleaned my gates & traps & left the gates open overnight on every machine I've run for a lot of years. I haven't noticed any effect one way or another. I always open the lateral guides on my Simplex sound heads to keep flat spots from forming, though it interested me that you could not do the same on a Motiograph SH7500 and it didn't seem to matter.
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