Continuing with the Worrall restoration and clean up, this week I focused on the tilt drive assembly. After much mining of old grease, case dirt, and oxidized aluminum, I was able to actually get my hands on the gears, drive shafts, brake assembly, and backlash adjustment sections. Special attention was paid to chiseling out the
Continuing Restoration of the Worrall Geared Head Read More »
The Worrall Geared Head was one of the premiere pan and tilt tools around the world for decades due to its silent, smooth, and accurate operation, and its ability to support extremely heavy cameras like the Mitchell BNC. When this unit arrived, it had a hitch in the tilt axis and a very large bump
Restoring Worrall Geared Head sn. 192 Read More »
A couple of days ago, Worrall Geared Head #192 limped its way into the shop. This geared head came in with the BNCR #136 that we showed in our last post, and believe it or not, it was in worse condition than the camera. I spent time this week evaluating and disassembling this geared head
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All of the work on Worrall Geared Head #192 has been completed! I was able to make the pan and tilt axes run smoothly despite some of the lumps in the tilt axis tracks. Much polishing and cleaning smoothed out the big lumps to a very acceptable level. The pan axis was smooth once all
Restoration of the Worrall is Complete! Read More »
New arrivals! After many twists and turns with Fedex, we finally took delivery of equipment from the collection of Gunnar Blanke, a filmmaker from the Denver, CO area. Lots of neat stuff in this collection, including a Mitchell NC that was purchased by Lookout Mountain in 1959, two Mitchell GCs, an Akeley Gyro Head, a
An Estate Purchase Out of Colorado Read More »
