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Ari Nordström
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posted 01-21-2000 05:13 PM
From the "Bone Head Moves of All Time" thread:>>"I was helping thread up the projectors (BauerU3) during training..."<< There is still a cinema somewhere with actual Bauer U3's installed?? Cool. I used to run those way back when working at a large 70mm theatre. (Yes, we had a few 70mm prints, too, even though running 70mm through U3's is by many considered to be a true bone head move by itself...) ![](http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/smile.gif) So how many of you have seen a Bauer U3, and how many of you tried to run 70mm through it? And how did it go, and what did you think about the machine? Any experiences, good or bad? I ask because the U3 was a pretty common projector around here a couple of years ago (mostly because it cost considerably less than a DP70), and I really learned to like it, in spite of the fact that a U3 looks more like a fridge than a projector.
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Ari Nordström
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posted 01-22-2000 07:24 PM
>>"Until recently we had a pair of U3's running in Toronto I ran Stakeout in 70 on them and hated it Noisey as hell"<<Part of their charm, some say. ![](http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/smile.gif) >>"The U2 was a vastly superior machine which I still didn't care much for The U3 reminded me of a Victoria 5 on steriods"<< Reminded me of a projector that desperately wanted to have a platter attached to it, actually, but never really figured out what was missing. That, and a fridge. I've run U2's, too, but I never liked them. There was something twisted about the way was threaded before the gate. Never felt right to me. There was a lot of work involved in making the U3 to behave. But it was possible, and we did it. The pair we had treated 70mm prints very well, in fact, and gave wonderful presentations. A nice thing about the U3 was that the lamphouse mirrors didn't need refocusing when moving from 35 to 70mm. Every time I get to show a 70mm print today, I need to refocus the mirrors (in Cinemeccanica Zenith X4000 lamphouses) which makes it almost impossible to move from a 35mm presentation to a 70mm ditto (or vice versa) without having to clear the auditorium. >>"My favorite 70 maachines are stil The Westrex5000 Norelco DP70 Zies(prevost) Favorite35/70"<< I run Favorit70 machines at my theatre, and consider them to be the best 70mm projectors ever built. It's a bitch to find spare parts that fit, but nevertheless...
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Ari Nordström
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posted 01-22-2000 07:35 PM
>>"There are lots of U4 and B12 still running in theaters in Denmark. But spare parts are getting very hard to find."<<B12 parts are almost impossible to find. The few machines I knew of have been replaced with Victoria 5's (or the theatres've been closed down for good) and the machines are in the hands of collectors that would NEVER part from them. Re the U4: what kinds do you run? The only one I ever saw live closely resembled a 35mm version of the U3 but had the supply reel (6000') _above_ the machine instead. I've seen pictures of U4s with a horizontal supply & takeup reel setup that looked a lot like a platter system to me.
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