Omer had a "handle", a Catlabs product, it was offered a few years back. No longer available.
http://processorparts.blogspot.com/2...er-30-for.html
Omer had a "handle", a Catlabs product, it was offered a few years back. No longer available.
http://processorparts.blogspot.com/2...er-30-for.html
Ok just finished a run, I followed Bernice method , works well for me, I am getting a machinist here though, the off and on of the tank for each component will eventually wear out the plastic gears so I think
the best is to have a lift arm designed that comes up from behind the tank to lift and drop easily, the arms themselves look like they can take on attachments easily .
I will post when I have something done I am in the middle of a super large order of large format film processing that will take me a couple of months to work through.
By "cracking sound", are you referring to the gear sound if the teeth don't align properly when lifting up/down the drum? I get this occasionally when doing the lift up and have never worried about it. When returning the drum to its operating position (that is, the down "lift") I lower the drum to a position just before it's to engage, wait until the motor is reversing back, then lower completely. Sometimes I miss it a bit, but most times there is no sound.
Some kind of extension to the rail unit would certainly be helpful, but the unit I remember being available years ago looked pretty flimsy to me. Not much use if the extension can't handle the weight of a full drum. Also, with an extension I'm thinking the lift would have to be exactly even and simultaneous with both hands, otherwise you might bend the rails; that wouldn't be good! Honestly, I've never understood why the lift mechanism is so dinky on an otherwise pretty well-built processor.
I'm trying string next time. All I really need is to get it so I can get fingers under the rails. I almost knocked a drum off, need to lift with the rails not the tank.
Not had any gear wear issues using the drum on-off method since the 90's when this Jobo was put in service, but it does depend on the number of on-off cycles. Not ideal, sorta ok band-aid.
Drum drive gears are replaceable. Think the drive gears and retainer is replaceable.
IMO the real solution is to add a helper handle for the frail twin lift mechanism. As delivered, as previously mentioned, that lift will bust using expert drums.. matter of when not if.
Bernice
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