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Author Topic: SH1000 and 1040 Motors Will Kutler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1506 From: Tucson, AZ, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 05-16-2009 07:12 PM                     Is it posible to use a SH1000 motor on a RCA 1040? If memory serves me right, the RCA used a Baldor motor and the SH100 motor had a Simplex data tag on it. Also, were the shaft lengths different, and what about the mounting brackets? I beleive that both soundheads had the same gears? Cheers Kutler  |  IP: Logged Dick Prather Master Film Handler Posts: 259 From: Portland, OR, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-16-2009 08:20 PM                     Yes, but with the following parts. MI-1040 has no flywheel so the motor and mount is shorter. You need a MI-1050 motor mount for the extra flywheel length. I believe the MI-9030 & 9050 motor mounts work also. RCA used Robyns & Meyers and Simplex used Leyland motors. Both flywheel motors should interchange. All the soundhead gearbox and projector drive gears are different between RCA and Simplex equipment. Dick  |  IP: Logged Bob Koch Expert Film Handler Posts: 183 From: williams ca Registered: Nov 2001 posted 05-17-2009 02:36 PM                     Dick is correct on all counts,as usual.The Robbins&Meyers flywheel mounted on a taper and the Leland flywheel was keyed to the shaft.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-17-2009 03:48 PM                     Why not just power it with a Hit And Miss engine !!! Those wrere popular back in the days of SH-1000s. Hey, this one even has a speed governer so you won't have any WOW! They also require very little attention, you could even adapt it to run off of old popper oil... Mark  |  IP: Logged Eric Robinson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 538 From: Santa Rosa, CA Registered: Jan 2005 posted 05-17-2009 07:28 PM                     And of course the added benefit of the hit and miss engine is that it would mask any projector noise that might be leaking into the auditorium.  |  IP: Logged Will Kutler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1506 From: Tucson, AZ, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 05-22-2009 12:19 PM                     Thanks Dick and Bob I stand corrected...you guys jogged my memory. It had been a while since I worked on the equipment and I had a "senior moment" Verrrry funny, Mark I thought that you would have told me to power it with my Philip Duclos inspired "Hula-Hula" engine!  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-22-2009 03:24 PM                     quote: Will Kutler Hula-Hula Naw, I don't think the Hula-Hula has enough oomph to do the job... .  |  IP: Logged

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