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Topic: Cinemeccancia
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David Kilderry
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Posts: 355
From: Melbourne Australia
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 05-29-2000 06:46 AM
Victoria 10, excellent and very reliable. Used a pair for 3 years almost all on 70mm and never had unreliability, but..........the separate drive motor for the take-up caught many projectionists napping, if you did not move the lever across very smoothly for start-up SNAP went the leader! The heat filter also would scare the hell out of you if you converted to 70mm and forgot to remove it, a show stoppage was the result to remove the "dark edges" from the screen. Drum shutter was interesting. The only machine to rival a DP70 for weight.Victoria 8, excellent, a little jitter and weave but solid and reliable. We have a plant that is 36 years old running in a dusty drive-in box there entire lives - one lost session in 13 years due to a faulty extractor fan - not the projectors fault. Victoria 5, gets a bad rap as everyone compares it to the Vic 8 and 10. Not such a bad machine when compared to Christie and Century - similar reliability. Biggest fault is the notorious shutter gearbox with 2nd rate gears. Many failures across 3 major cinema circuits in this country. ALWAYS have a spare. The belts are also not up to it. Manual says reverse at 5,000 hours and replace at 10,000, we've had failures at 2,000 hrs! So have many other circuits that run them. Spares are an absolute and replace at 2,000 hrs or 6 months. It used to rock solid, we have a plant dating from 1980 that has not skipped a beat, but like many things corners are cut to build at a price.
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