P3D Re: TDC Colorist take-up reels

[Steve Berezin <sbere@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Kersenbrock wrote:

> > > > It MIGHT be fixable either by adding a screw (through the plastic reel
> > > > and metal axis) or by just plain epoxying the whole darn thing together.
> > >
> > > TDC's repair manual says to either replace the reel (right...) or to
> > > rebuild it via the screw technique (which it details in it's own way).
> > >
> > > If there's interest I probably can scan the several pages applicable
> > > and put it on my web site.
> >
> > Mike,
> >
> > I would definitely be interested.  I got an estimate from Jess Powell but I
> > don't think he can fix it by NSA.
>
> I have the applicable pages at:
>
>         http://www.serve.com/michaelk/temp/color1.gif (...thru color5.gif)
>
> The first page outlines the proceedure, and the other pages are assembly,
> instr. disassembly instr., and assembly diagarams referred to in the
> first page.
>
> I'll leave it there for a little while before I delete them.  They
> are not accessable through links on my home page, you have to know
> the "secret" path above.
>
> They are 200dpi B&W bitmaps and vary from 80K to 100K.  Being 200dpi,
> they'll be too big to read well on a browser screen.  They should be
> saved locally then put into a graphics program of most any sort that
> will read a .gif file, and then printed from there (resized, etc as
> necessary).
>
> Hope this help you fix it (or help make you decide not to do it :-).
>
> Mike K.

 Thanks a lot mike.  The scans came out real nice, I can tell it must of taken
some effort.  I think after looking at it I may leave the repair work to someone
other than myself.  I wouldn't have guessed that the degree of disassembly would
be required to fix the spool.

Also thanks to everybody else who gave suggestions.

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