Eumig s810d+s907 Proj Help+Manuals Needed

Post by **Daniel McKay** » Mon Jul 07, 2003 10:43 pm

It's 18 days 'till my 1st screening at Flicker in NYC and I'm in Projector HELL .
After my old B+H ate some of my footage I went out this weekend and snapped up 2 Eumigs that seemed to work, until......
I switched my s810d into reverse and it jammed, forcing me to pick bits of broken film out with tweezers. Now it won't thread properly. I hold down the lever and the film gets past the gate and it begins to go into the housing below the lamp, at which point the film jams + backs up into the black guides. Sometimes it does get through and works great but only 1 out of 10 tries at best. It seems to be blocked right after the black lever/guides.

The s907 also has it's share of mysteries:
It seems like I have to push alot of film through until it threads, i.e. there isn't a toothed sproket in the feed slot like the 810, is this normal?
More importantly, I can't get the lense to stay seated properlly and engage the focus knob. It slides in but doesn't clip or attach to anything. The focus knob just spins +dosen't engage any mechanism. I can't tell if something's broken or if it's just user error. The lense seems like it's supposed to be removeable, but how the heck does it stay in?

I've worked so hard on my first film + now at the editing stage I'm screwed. I need a working projector so I can time the edit cues for the music score...So close yet so far.
I will name my first born child after the person that can help me. THANKS!!!! :

Post by **Super8rules** » Tue Jul 08, 2003 7:23 pm

My 810 did the same thing. I downloaded the manual off the internet in a ZIP file, but I can't for the life of me find the link.

Unfortunately, I ruined my 810 by trying to pull out the blasted S8 gate, pulling off the pulldown claw.

If I find that link, I'll post it here.

Post by **Petteri** » Tue Jul 08, 2003 10:45 pm

I have finnish version from the manual at home! I can try to translate some parts of it when i get back to home (after two weeks). But the finnish version is quite short thought. Maybe something usefull but don't count on that...

The lens should be so that the round thing is to the "out side". (if you look from back side, the round thing in the lens should be at right). The focus "button" should be connected to that, so turning focus ring will do something inside the lens! it's quite difficult to get it back, once you have taken it out ;-)

Petteri