In the picture below, take note of the 4 drive-pin holes in the reel. This came from the Technicolor depot on a print made at the Technicolor lab.

Now take a closer look at the core inside the reel. Does anyone see a problem here?

The blue core pictured below to my knowledge has not caused a single person any grief whatsoever, so why change it? This new design is incompatible with all of those fabulous broken reels already in the field.

Genius! Sheer genius!!!

It has been proven to me that TECHNICOLOR ONLY HIRES STUPID PEOPLE! This is 100% fact. If you are reading this and your work for Technicolor, you are a freakin' moron! Yes, you! How else could you explain the decisions they make? Certainly no intelligence is involved. If there is any intelligence in this design, can somebody please point it out to me? I bet no one can. I bet they are also too stupid and too cowardly to even give us a reason behind this and other TES blunders.

You just KNOW that their digital projectors are gonna suck just as much ass as TES themselves do.

Said cores cause one massive problem compared to the three-inch diameter cores more commonly used to mount 2,000ft reels over here. This is that the slot for the registration pin is too narrow to accomodate the pins on most split reels and winding plates.

Now this isn't really a problem at all, I hear you all say, because you can just file down the pin on your spool and slot the core on. WRONG! Whilst this will let you get the core on the spool or plate, the registration pin on the base of the spindle (as distinct from the one on the side of the shaft) will foul one of the spokes on the core when you attempt to put the mounted plate on a rewind bench or the spool on the projector's feed spindle.

Comparing the two cores in Brad's picture, it looks like the slot sizes are the same and the spokes are definitely in the same place relative to the slot, so it appears that neither of these design flaws has been corrected.

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Sure, they get smashed, but they usually can be un-smashed long enough to extract the product.

I would rather see a mashed reel of film than to here about someone who was hurt by a plastic reel that flew apart, as it did in Rachel's face.

Sleasy corporations, as well as private businesses, deserve going to hell if they produce a product that is knowingly unsafe to use.

Now you know why people call me "Grumpy".

So, "Pbpthbpthbthp!" if you don't agree with me.

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Actually, Goldberg's plastic shipping reel is fine too, if you have to have plastic. It is these snap together reels that all suck and should be abandoned...or at least sued into oblivion!

Steve

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