My Bolex M8 arrived yesterday, I cleaned all the dust off it, plugged it in, and turned it on. The lamp works, motor runs, etc. I ran an inexpensive film I bought through it. All was well except the speed control, that doesn't work. When I opened the bottom of the case, the 2 resistive coils are coming apart. I'm currently contacting some companies that Bolex told me to contact to replace that part. Also I need to clean the film I want to run, when I rewound it I found a some taped splices where the tape has come off and left the adhesive. But I'm slowly progressing.
I found running my test film through the projector rather interesting.
I also found another regular 8 film, I think a 2 or 3 inch reel; it's in bad shape, the film is twisted. I also found another reel that is super 8; of course that would happen. I've been looking for super 8 projectors based on some searches from this and other forums, but those run from $400 to $1,000 which is a bit out of my price range. Any recommendations for a similar grade of super 8 projectors?