loop mark
transfer roller
Step 2: The Take-up Side
The following procedures may be carried out in the light.
• Flip the magazine over so that the take-up door is
uppermost and the top of the magazine is facing you.
The ARRI on the door will be upside down.
• Open the take-up side magazine door and latch back
the lay-on roller arm. Fit an empty lm core to the
take-up core holder making sure that the core holder
key is engaged in the key slot of the lm core.
• The lm head should be protruding from the transfer
roller aphoto. Check that it is cut squarely through a
perforation.
• Thread the lm head around the forward guide roller
as indicated inside the magazine. Without touching the
lm core, push the lm head into the upper sprocket roller
until its teeth engage in the lm perforations aphoto.
• Once the sprocket teeth have engaged in the lm
perforations, turn the lm core until the lm head
emerges from the magazine throat.
• Set the loop length by pulling the lm head away from
you and align it with the loop mark on the bottom of
the magazine aphoto. Adjust the loop length by
turning the take-up lm core.
• Now take your hand off the lm core – there is enough
inertia in the sprockets to maintain the loop length.
footage counter roller
lm coreforward guide roller
upper
sprocket roller
Magazine
lower
sprocket roller
rear guide rollerloop length mark