Re: Ampro New Educational - motor woes, issues and solutions
Joe, this is something to think about, it would be possible with some well thought modification. The original motor has a spindle through both ends so a similar motor would have to be sought, one end operates the cooling fan drum and the other drives the mechanism. I've never in the past had problems with these contact breakers but there's a first for everything.
Lucien, I'll take some photos of it as soon as I can. This example is a single breaker, I was looking at the 'Stylist' service info which has two breakers and in fact I think most 16mm sound projectors have two breakers, one for silent and one for sound. The motor speed arrangement of the New Educational means that the breaker is only needed for full speed sound films and silent is variable by a rheostat control.
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