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Michael Wohlford
Film Handler

Posts: 17
From: Round Rock, TX, USA
Registered: Jun 2001

posted 07-03-2001 09:05 PM

Since CFS shut down, where can I send my CFS super platter motors to be repaired? Right now, we don't have the money to upgrade to descent platter systems.

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Ethan Harper
E-dawggg!!!

Posts: 325
From: Plano, TX, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 07-03-2001 11:56 PM

To my knowledge Strong is taking care of replacement parts for CFS. I am not to sure on that one though.

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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man

Posts: 4718
From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 07-04-2001 12:20 AM

The motors are Lamb motors, and can be obtained from Grainger. Slight modification is necessary, but not too hard to do.

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Aaron Sisemore
Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day!

Posts: 3061
From: Rockwall TX USA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 07-04-2001 02:45 AM

Strong to my knowledge is supporting only the old ORC platters with the 'wide' tree assemblies.

The majority of the stock of CFS Super Platter parts were bought at auction in December 2000 by three parties: Dick Niccum, Cinema West Theatres, and another party that bought a bunch of the discs and trees for scrap metal.

Dick Niccum at LTI still has some CFS platter components available. He also supports the CFS lamphouse consoles.

Paul: I would love to learn to adapt the Lamb motor to a CFS casing, it would be a huge cost saver and headache reducer

Aaron

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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man

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From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 07-04-2001 02:57 AM

Aaron, that's why I do it. We have motors up the Gazoo now..

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Matthew Bailey
Master Film Handler

Posts: 461
From: Port Arthur,TX
Registered: Sep 2000

posted 07-04-2001 11:15 PM

I have heard that some Battlebots builders use platter motors.

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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster

Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 07-04-2001 11:57 PM

Here in Salt Lake City we call them the Stupid Platter. The best cure for them is to dispose of them all together. What a piece of crap! However they would go right along with a Christie projector. Two marvels of engineering.
Mark @ GTS

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John Pytlak
Film God

Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 07-05-2001 08:38 AM

Aaron said: "The majority of the stock of CFS Super Platter parts were bought at auction in December 2000 by three parties: Dick Niccum, Cinema West Theatres, and another party that bought a bunch of the discs and trees for scrap metal."

Did Cinema West Theatres buy them for use in their own theatres, or to sell them to others?

Do you have contact information for Dick Niccum?

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Aaron Sisemore
Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day!

Posts: 3061
From: Rockwall TX USA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 07-05-2001 07:00 PM

Cinema West bought the CFS platter parts inventory for company use, mainly motors, bearings, rollers, brain parts, guidance hardware, and some lamphouse components. Cinema West also bought the entire Aura lighting stock, and have had inquiries from some people that were referred to us about parts from that stock. (None of our locations uses any Aura lighting products....yet.

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As far as I know we are not offering any of the components for sale, but I can see if they can be made available if they are needed badly enough (no more operational motors left, sorry)

Dick Niccum's new company Lighting Images Technology can be reached at: (909) 981-7190.

Aaron

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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster

Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 07-05-2001 10:55 PM

If anyone needs replacement Aura Parts contact Lighting And Electronic Design in Henderson,Nevada. The plex I just worked on had to replace its early Aura LED lighting to be able to get open again as too many LED's had failed. Lighting And Electronic Design was able to supply me with their Stadia Light LED lighting and poly extrusion covers to fit the original Aura track.
Mark @ GTS

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Andy Muirhead
Master Film Handler

Posts: 323
From: Galashiels, Scotland
Registered: Dec 2000

posted 07-06-2001 07:03 PM

just caught this thread late, have CFS folded? this is interesting as we we have CFS platter and tables in all our screens. Fill me in guys

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Aaron Sisemore
Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day!

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From: Rockwall TX USA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 07-06-2001 07:26 PM

CFS-Rentec went out of business in the fall of 2000. The company's assets and inventory were liquidated at auction December 6th, 2000. Most of it went cheap.

Everything but the building itself was sold, to include the patent for the Dreamcatcher projector, all of the Aura Lighting division's stock, machine shop equipment, complete and semi-completed lamphouses, platters, Dreamcatcher projectors, special-venue equipment (they were a major supplier to the Disney parks), projector, platter, lamphouse, electronic and mechanical components (and LOTS of them), forklifts, raw materials, and much much more. The parties buying the largest lots were:

Dick Niccum (who has since started a new company called Lighting Images Technology)
Cinemark USA
Cinema West Theatres
Various dealers buying sheet metal and other raw and 'scrap' materials

Support for CFS platters and lamphouse consoles is now handled by LIT (see above posts for the number)

I don't think that any of CFS' former tech staff is providing any support.
Aaron

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John Walsh
Film God

Posts: 2490
From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 07-07-2001 12:20 AM

We demo'ed a Rentec ESP3 platter in 1997. It was pretty good. The fit on the parts was very good, and I liked the "no-moving-parts" design of the payout head. The manual was better (clear, well-drawn illustrations, etc.) than many other projection equipment manufacturers.

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Sean McKinnon
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1712
From: Peabody Massachusetts
Registered: Sep 2000

posted 07-07-2001 12:59 AM

Are you sure the company isnt LTI?

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Aaron Sisemore
Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day!

Posts: 3061
From: Rockwall TX USA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 07-07-2001 03:18 AM

>>Are you sure the company isnt LTI?<<

its LIT. Is LTI based in Upland, CA?

-Aaron

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