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Author Topic: mut staying on full speed Mark L Morgan Film Handler Posts: 11 From: tell city, IN Registered: Jul 2004 posted 08-15-2004 04:01 AM                        anyone know how to adjust speed on one of these things? when i go to rewind it's on full speed wont adjust. feeds out perfect.  |  IP: Logged Ethan Harper E-dawggg!!! Posts: 325 From: Plano, TX, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 08-15-2004 04:44 AM                     What is the Brand?  |  IP: Logged Ken Layton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1452 From: Olympia, Wash. USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 08-15-2004 11:26 AM                     Yeh, there are plenty of different makes and models of makeup tables out there. We need to know which one yours is in order to help.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 08-15-2004 11:31 AM                    and it would probably be a good idea to include the brand name in the topic header.  |  IP: Logged Mark L Morgan Film Handler Posts: 11 From: tell city, IN Registered: Jul 2004 posted 08-16-2004 11:50 AM                        eprad  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-16-2004 12:52 PM                     Most likely it is the variac that has gone bad and it may be as simple as the connection to the common (soldered to the centre of the variac winding) is open also maybe the microswitch on the cam for rotation is not set correctly  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-16-2004 06:08 PM                        Mark, better read the FAQ and fix your thread title before one of the Moderators takes a huge on you.  |  IP: Logged Richard Greco Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1180 From: Plant City, FL Registered: Nov 2003 posted 08-16-2004 09:13 PM                     Just a FYI, when posting, make sure you give a little description in the topic title. For example: "What is the speed of a (insert brand) mut?" Just to let you know... Now before I get yelled at for being a wanna-be mod, I'm gonna go bye-bye.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-16-2004 10:47 PM                     Guys, there is a simpler way to explain the rule... Read rule #7 and make appropriate corrections before you get booted from the forums.  |  IP: Logged Bill Langfield Master Film Handler Posts: 280 From: Prospect, NSW, Australia Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-17-2004 11:59 AM                        Eprad like below? If so LIKE Gordon said. I know you can't SEE the mut, but it doesnt take a genius to work out what is hiding behind those reels. Plus check that the variac is centred before lifting the arm. Don't rely on the arrow on the control, twist it left and right until you feel it centred. BTW: Im the good looking one in the blue shirt. EDIT/ADDITION: Here's a pile of junk I was going to post the other night after I saw Mark's 'mutt' post, but then the FORMULA 1 Race started. I really should edit it, but Im too lazy. Hope some of it makes sense. Oh good, I’m glad Mark brought up the subject of Mut’s, I’ve a few questions too. Though it is a real shame his subject and content explains EXACTLY nothing. Oh well it’s only his second post. He’ll learn I guess. One of the Cinemeccanica muts the type that have the slider not the rotary speed controller ‘blew’ up. (Not sure of the model number, all I can suggest is the newer ones that come with the CNR-35’N’) The main blame went to it being operated at full speed. I find that hard believes as are the speed control Electronics not under any load Before Mark gets busted for a lame Topic subject and bad content, I have a question too. Oh first, Mark, with nothing to go on, I'd say the gizmo that controls slow to fast is burnt out and arc'd into fast mode! Nomally stuff like that shits itself and burns out into 'STOP what stinks mode'. Anyway: One of the Cinemeccanica muts the type that have the slider not the rotary speed controller ‘blew’ up. (Not sure of the model number, all I can suggest is the newer ones that come with the CNR-35’N’) The main blame went to it being operated at full speed. I find that hard believe as the speed control Electronics not under any load when to full, surely? Second blame went to that it was being broken down by the classic method of 'pulling' it onto 6000's. Third, the idiler roller was not dis-engaged. Forth, all or a combo of the above. I dont really care what blew it up or what blew on it, it was before my time and most of the people that were there at the time are gone, that mut just sits in the corner now, there are others. I might open it up one day and see whats broken in there. The end result, is that is now recommended to breakdown via the payout brain to either 2000' flats or to a 6000' spool. Bizzare, Ive never heard of breaking down via the payout. Is it common? Iv'e not tried it but I can only imagine it make for a loose wind to a flat, how ever there would zero load on the mut. GOOTA go the F1 is....!!  |  IP: Logged Mark L Morgan Film Handler Posts: 11 From: tell city, IN Registered: Jul 2004 posted 08-19-2004 12:59 AM                        thanks guys for your help... sorry for not being on the rule thing but i will next time.... mark  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-19-2004 05:14 AM                     Sounds like Mark has never read the FAQ and rules pages or he would have already corrected the problem. It is YOUR responsibility to fix Mark. Please do this before you post further.  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 08-19-2004 08:04 AM                     And here I thought this was a thread about those cartoon characters Mutt & Jeff, not some boring film winding gizmo.  |  IP: Logged Mark L Morgan Film Handler Posts: 11 From: tell city, IN Registered: Jul 2004 posted 08-19-2004 03:23 PM                        i am getting better...........  |  IP: Logged

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