Re: Eclair ACL English verus French

[Mark <super16acl@aol.com>]

My follow-up FAX to STEVE'S CINE SERVICE:

I just called the camera tech I mentioned, who would set the ACL's perf pitch 
by cutting a hole in the front of a spare camera body (he lives up in Eastern 
Canada, is retired, and refuses to service any more ACLs!), and I asked for 
more details on how he did it --- since I know that he did not use the 
Official Eclair Tool Kit.

He told me that he used a highly polished piece of metal 16mm film that is 
punched with perfs of perfect pitch (at one time supplied by Kodak), and then 
with the mechanism screwed tightly into his modified body (with the huge hole 
in the front), he would manually adjust the pitch through a microscope. (He 
mentioned as well that the tightness (torque) of the screws holding the rear 
housing pieces in place could affect the pitch adjustment by a tiny amount 
--- so that both front and rear body parts had to be tighly screwed into 
place while doing this).  Perhaps this is the way that many ACL Techs do it, 
I don't know. But I thought that I'd supply the info. Mark. PS- He also 
mentioned that he would completely strip apart and rebuild the transmission, 
another major source of noise, and add new bearings to everything.

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