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Topic: How to make mistakes ON PURPOSE?
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Randy Stankey
Film God
Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 10-12-2000 05:29 PM
This week I'm going to try a new method of training people. They've all got a little experience and I want to try something different...I plan to thread up a bunch of projectors and make a mistake here and there. (On purpose.) Then the trainees get to go around and find the mistakes. (Simplex PR-1050 / TU-2000 turret -- Speco Platter -- CFS lamphouse/automation -- FM-35) Okay, there are a few difinitive mistakes like: * Misthread the brain
* Film jumping 1/2 way off a roller
* Not closing the sound head pressure roller
* Making the loops so big they hit the inside of the proj. chassis.
* Thread out of frame. Anybody have any other suggestions?
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Steven Gorsky
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 146
From: Frederick, MD, USA
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 10-13-2000 02:52 AM
Still being fairly new to projection, I can offer some suggestions.
Set the lamp house to manual strike instead of auto.
Skip the top roller on the DTS reader (analog will work fine, but DTS won't). Skip the bottom roller on the SDDS reader (same effect as above). Disengage the motor from payout platter (Neumade/others?). Set lights to panic (Neumade/others? lighting control) or have work lights turned on.
I'll probably come with other problems ("situations") I've had or others I've worked with had.
Steven Gorsky
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Brad Miller
Administrator
Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 10-13-2000 04:40 AM
Geez, you're cruel!  Skip one of the top takeup rollers and run the film over the roller's shaft instead. Blow a platter fuse and have it handy to insert whenever you want it to fail. Move the SPECO magnet out of alignment. Punch BOTH decks to "takeup". See how long it takes them to realize a forward wrap is slowly happening. Knock a magazine roller out of alignment and see if they notice. Untuck the tail. Turn a breaker off. Slightly crack open a lamphouse door to trip the safety interlock. Set the automation to interlock! (To start two projectors at once by mistake or have it not fire at all.) Turn the sound processor to "remote fader". Insert a blown exciter lamp. For added fun, put the wrong DTS discs in the player as well. Loosen the scope lens and rotate it slightly in the turret. Lower the gate tension until the film jumps. Turn off the center channel amplifier. Insert a bad diode. Dolby SRD penthouse reader...turn it off. That should keep 'em busy for awhile. If you want to get REALLY mean... Detach the cable that would normally pull the electric douser out of the way Disassemble the prime and anamorphic and place a carefully cut piece of black construction paper inbetween them, then reassemble and install. Drain all of the oil from the projector and see if they check it. Wait, I'm getting too evil here. 
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Evans A Criswell
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1579
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 10-13-2000 12:34 PM
Even more evil: Fill the lamphouse with gunpowder or TNT. Put superglue in the Filmguard bottle. Permute the lenses among all the projectors in such a manner that no projector has the correct lenses (assuming all your auditoriums and screens aren't exactly the same size). I'm just kidding, folks.
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