Today we rejoice, for Twentieth Century-Fox Cine Simplex camera sn. 105 is finished! Or as complete as I can get it with the parts that I had. Despite its looks when I first examined this camera, the heart of the system was still in repairable condition. The most complicated part of this project actually turned […]
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A short one today as my battle with Twentieth Century-Fox Cine Simplex camera sn. 105 rages on. The folks who designed this amazing camera went way out of their way to isolate as many things as possible from the housing of the camera to prevent noise and vibration from escaping the camera box. The components
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My work on Twentieth Century-Fox Cine Simplex camera #105 continues on, this time with reinstalling the sprocket, the film keepers, the buckle trips, and starting to reinstall the movement. One of the interesting notes is how the movement is installed in this camera. There is another set of steel plates that are laminated to what
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Despite my grand ambitions of assembling the main drive components and reinstalling the movement in this Twentieth Century-Fox Cine Simplex camera, sn. 105, I was stopped by one of those silly little things that stops so many projects. Last week I mentioned the steel plates sandwiched around a piece of leather that work as a
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A friend of mine brought this Twentieth Century-Fox Cine Simplex Camera to me well over a year ago to see if it could be cleaned up and restored to working condition. I have been busy with many other projects, so I am just now getting to it. The camera appears to have been neglected and
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I hurt my back out over the weekend, so I’ve been mostly taking it easy this week. Did a little bit of work on one of my friend Daniil’s ARRI ST Super 16 conversions, and then sat and admired this fascinating Newman & Sinclair camera that we took in a year or so ago. This
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I have taken you all along with me as I restored this fascinating Universal Panoramic and Tilting Head Tripod, and now it is finally complete! The journey included completely disassembling the pan and tilt device, re-machining some of the bits and pieces that make it work, replacing wood on one of the legs that apparently
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Years and years ago I acquired a dozen or so of these Mitchell 400’ magazine castings. They are mostly complete, except for the light traps, the guide rollers, and in some cases the upholstery. Whoever had them before me took all of those parts out, lost them somewhere, but had the castings sandblasted so that
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I am putting the finishing touches on my restoration of Mitchell Standard 46, and I’m nearly done! The painting is complete, and I spent quite a while carefully removing miles of masking tape and paper from the various parts of the camera. The next step was to begin reinstalling the shutter drive, the movement, and
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Now that I am mostly recovered from last week’s sickness, I am ready to get back to work on the final stages of the painting process. All of the masking that I applied to the camera for the internal paint work had to be removed, the exterior of the camera had to be cleaned and
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