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Author Topic: Oil change on a Century SA Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-03-2004 10:30 AM                     I have never been comfortable with the idea of refilling a pre-labelled bottle with any other liquid besides the one indicated on the labelling. A proper oil can is really NOT that hard to find.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-03-2004 11:38 AM                        William, great little tip. I definately will need to grab a supply of these things. Just the other day I found that a squirrel had gotten up into our projection booth (in the park) an chewed through the handle on the plastic gallon container of ECCO 1500 solvent, as well as the electrical cord on a work light -- gave me a nasty shock too. What the little bugger was going for I can't guess, but luckily the fluid level was below his efforts and didn't leak out all over the place. Now I need to transfer the stuff to another container, but there is always the question as to what plastics will hold up to that chemical. Glass is impervious but not safe for the rough and tumble of this peculiar temporary setup. For the time being I just taped up the holes with gaffers tape rather than put the cleaner in some plastic bottle of unknown resistance that might eventually melt. I'll see if these little bottles can withstand ECCO 1500 -- they would be perfect applicators if they do. BTW, last year the squirrles climbed up the three story stage truss and got to the movie screen -- chewed a 6in x 6in hole in it. Harkness sent us a repair kit -- a swatch of screen and some glue. Luckily the screen is not too old so the difference between the patch and screen surface is not that great and if you don't know where it is, you can barely see it in daylight. It is invisible with the picture on it. An old timer once said that when you buy screen, you should always by a big piece of patching material and hang it on the rear of the screen so that it ages the same as the screen does. If you ever need a patch, it will not be as obvious as would a piece of new screen material patched over old.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 08-03-2004 10:04 PM                        For the ECCO 1500 solvent, a polyester bottle (PETE) should hold up very well, as it's the same material as ESTAR film base. High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) should be okay too, but may allow more evaporation during storage. Be sure you label the bottle properly, ideally transferring the label from the original ECCO 1500 container.  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-04-2004 02:13 AM                        quote: Manny Knowles I have never been comfortable with the idea of refilling a pre-labelled bottle with any other liquid besides the one indicated on the labelling. That's a good first thought always, but if it's reasonable otherwise, it shouldn't be such a big deal to use the container for other contents. There's no problem with putting mustard in an ketchup bottle that's been cleaned & re-labelled. The big things to watch out for are the container's material being attacked by the contents, or contamination. The contents of the Zoom Spout container are light oil with no additives, so after a reasonable cleaning most other light petroleum-based lubricants won't be a problem. Wash it out if paranoid about diluting the mystery Century oil with .0000001% turbine oil. Detergents (not soaps) are what you want, many dishwashing detergents are very good at cleaning up petroleum-based products (I like Dawn detergent for that & greasy fingernails). Everybody should have a bottle brush or two: http://www.labdepotinc.com/category_details~id~105.aspx not just Joe Redifer, who certainly keeps them on hand to treat his chronic Jacquet's dermatitis. When washing containers which held petroleum products for not-extremely-critical reuse, they can be inspected visually. Fill them with water. Water & oil are immiscible (they don't dissolve one into the other), & check for an emulsion or separate layers (or blobs).  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-04-2004 11:24 AM                     Just a government word of caution about filling containers with other products make sure they are labled accordingly in a fashion perscribed in your local codes Whimis up here (like OSHA in the US) is very fussy and rather punative over things like this so if a container is labled in a non removable fashion sticking another label over it would not be acceptable  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-05-2004 07:02 PM                     "On the "C" intermittent, the oil fill tube is conveniently located next to the outer bearing of the intermittent sprocket. Why did Century decide to move it to a less-accessible location when they were designing the "SA" models?" __________________________________________________________ To get back to Scotts question which I thnk went unanswered, They moved the oil filler back because the outboard bushing and arm are removable to allow field replacement of the sprocket without tearing down the movement which you have no choice but to do on the C. Mark @ CLACO  |  IP: Logged

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