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yes, John S. had a spindle adapter on his website, but for price it now says "N/A"

I guess he's out of them

yes, John S. had a spindle adapter on his website, but for price it now says "N/A"

I guess he's out of them

do the John Schwind 100' 16mm film spools, fit the Elmo magazine spindles ?

that's what I need to know

thanks !

yes, I have spoken to John Schwind before- my concern is, does he sell the film on a 100' spool that will load directly onto the Elmo spindle, in the Elmo magazine ?

you know, like when you buy a new spool of standard/double 8 in 25' size, it loads right into a std. 8 camera

does this film from ...

Wait around a few months and by next summer (unless you are down under) you may find another one or two of them. I've got one of these (click here for pix) last year. Had mine fixed up by Axco Instruments in North London. They cleaned it up and removed the lens fungus. I didn't ask how they did it ...

yep, my intuitions exactly- thanks for concurring

Tearing up those old elmos is a pretty rough experience-and as you mentioned, they are of a higher build quality and that beater of yours may work with a bit of a tune up. Follow super8man's advice, and send us some pics-we'd love to help ya out.


good point- from past experience with anything ...

Wait around a few months and by next summer (unless you are down under) you may find another one or two of them. I've got one of these (click here for pix) last year. Had mine fixed up by Axco Instruments in North London. They cleaned it up and removed the lens fungus. I didn't ask how they did it ...

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here's an MPEG video of the optional magazine and zoom handle attached, and magazine running- the working camera has a case and is a 4X lens, the beater is a 5x lens- actually it's not really a beater- someone had a piece of tape on the lens to hold it steady, and the motor inside does run on the ...

I stumbled upon one of these 8-TL cameras for cheap money without the magazine, and bought it. Later, another one popped up for sale that did not work, had a loose lens- but a complete working 100' magazine attached- got that one too. Cross breeded the good magazine to the good camera...and got it ...

Why bother putting that much work in it?They go on ebay anywhere from 5 to 15 bucks.Just replace 'em.


Nada- already tried that- it doesn't work- I bought 5 of these cameras from Ebay for $10 or less each, some of them were $1- of the entire lot, only ONE worked- and it broke in 2 minutes ...

... the problem would be, getting a good gear off without breaking it, to make a mold of it in modeling clay, then pour/form a new gear from Devcon or some other metal-imbedded high-strength epoxy- the other gears it meshes to are equally fragile, I broke a few of those while disassembling these ...