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Hello, does anyone have the manual for Tokiwa T-60, 35mm portable sound projector.
I am looking to find out how to disassemble the intermitent, as it needs a cleanup.
Thank you in advance.
they don’t have any spares or manuals anymore but there does seem to be someone there who can still offer advice on 35mm . They don’t respond very quickly though . Good luck
I don't reccommend running any rare, or important film on that thing. I had one years ago, and they are very hard on film. So, run some junk film on it first!! Also, they leak oil really bad.
Good luck with it...
Yes, make sure there’s no slack when you switch it on seems to be the advice everyone gives . I got hold of one last year that is in absolute mint condition, I don’t think it’s ever been run . I paid very little for it . Funnily enough I only got around to checking it over yesterday. It’s held on to the oil I put in but I haven’t fired it up yet as it’s a110 v machine I think and didn’t come with a power cable so I’ve got to fit a new power socket and get hold of a transformer. Looking inside it’s very simple electrically, alarmingly not even an earth fitted !
Thanks for feedback, Jonathan and Mark!
Yes, it's a simple projector, it leaks oil indeed...
I am discovering few tricks on disassembling the main drive shaft and intermitent. Interesting enough the intermitent does not have a way to check the oil level, unless, I am missing something...a manual would help.
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Thanks for feedback, Jonathan and Mark!
Yes, it's a simple projector, it leaks oil indeed...
I am discovering few tricks on disassembling the main drive shaft and intermitent. Interesting enough the intermitent does not have a way to check the oil level, unless, I am missing something...a manual would help.
Based on that oil-fill port design... maybe you were supposed to check level with some sort of dip-stick. heh. That or the tube itself is the sight-glass (it appears transparent) and you were supposed to fill up to a certain point on the tube.
On my machine there is a sight glass where the vertical brass tube is in your picture . You fill it to a mark etched on the side which is half way up the tube . It didn’t take much oil but so far no leaks . There are also three or four other brass oiling cups for the gears . Did your machine come with its own transformer/psu? It looks like it’s 100/50 or 110/60 depending on pulley and 110/100 vac to the exciter unless I’m missing a feed from a sep winding ?
That’s interesting, it looks like yours has been modified. Mine doesn’t have the XLR exciter input . In mine the exciter is fed straight from the 110 vac in . The mod is Probably because 110 bulbs with horizontal filaments are difficult to get hold of . I’ll probably modify mine to use an LED
20250125_092724.jpgI am not sure if it's modified, but I doubt that exciter lamp its 110V lamp.
My lamp looks like yours, I got the specs from lamp, mine is 8.5V 4A and works.
Although in the old days they did use AC, it was there in case the normal DC exciter lamp failed, the use of AC was frowned on since a lamp running on AC would inject hum into the sound system.
On my machine there is a sight glass where the vertical brass tube is in your picture . You fill it to a mark etched on the side which is half way up the tube . It didn’t take much oil but so far no leaks . There are also three or four other brass oiling cups for the gears . Did your machine come with its own transformer/psu? It looks like it’s 100/50 or 110/60 depending on pulley and 110/100 vac to the exciter unless I’m missing a feed from a sep winding ?
Do you have a picture with the sight glass?
I'd like to see the marks for the oil level.
It is a strange set up , I’ve traced the exciter back and it shares the same live pin as the motor , which is a split single ph type rated 110/60. I was going to disconnect it from the live pin and wire it up to DC anyway for the reasons Mark points out . I just used some Kinoton oil and it seems ok . Not sure what Tokiwa recommended . I’ll try and get a pic of the sight glass , the full mark is half way up it
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