{"id":4892,"date":"2026-06-20T09:23:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T09:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/?p=4892"},"modified":"2026-07-07T14:11:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:11:57","slug":"projector-and-projection-workshops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/projector-and-projection-workshops\/","title":{"rendered":"Projector and projection workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"

WORK IN PROGRESS – POST<\/p>\n

I had the enormous pleasure of running two workshops recently at the amazing lab space filmverstaden in Vaasa, Finland.<\/p>\n

Such a great bunch of people came and it was really nice to do a hands on, practical workshop where a high degree of usefulness transpired.<\/p>\n

Even though I have serviced and fixed many Eikis in my time I’ts still kind of fun to deal with common machine problems like deeply hidden lubrication to free stuck or jammed parts.<\/p>\n

Its made me think that now is a good time to make a full documentation of how to go about looking after these machines (the service manual is a good place to start people!) and how to deal with common issues and problems.<\/p>\n

4 TYPES of LUBRICANT: Engine (Petroleum) oil. Silicon oil 100cst. <\/strong>Silicon grease and Molybdenum disulphide grease.<\/p>\n

As well as these I find one other thing useful in some situations. Aerosol 3in1 oil. This is useful for 2 common issues, the sound drum guide wheel getting stuck and the retainer spring pins that locate the take up and pay-off reel arms. When these become stuck and dont move freely a little 3in1 spray, aimed into the mechanism can free them up without the need to disassemble parts which in the case of the guide wheel is tricky.<\/p>\n

These 4 types of lubricant have particular jobs which I have summarised generally in this chart.<\/p>\n

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But the service manuals, pages 20 – 25 has a comprehensive list of parts and their corresponding lubricant.<\/p>\n

Here we see the switch from petroleum oil on worm\/fibre gear to grease for later SSL models. Possibly Oil was a typo? as it is runny it will quickly leave these connecting gears and drip inside the machine. I’ve always used Silicon grease.<\/p>\n

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EIKI 16mm projectors<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n