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Topic: platters with blowers
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Aaron Sisemore
Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day!
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Posts: 3061
From: Rockwall TX USA
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 08-17-2001 07:37 PM
>>I believe they were Super Platters so I assume they were CFS<<CFS nor ORC *EVER* made the Super with 'air blowers', they are all friction roller driven from electric motors, and always have been. Are you possibly confusing the drive motors with some kind of blower device? (granted the drive motors are a variation of a vacuum cleaner motor, but with a differing use). You must be confusing with the Simplex platter, which is the only one i have ever heard of that used the air-blower drive. Aaron
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John Eickhof
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Posts: 588
From: Wendell, ID USA
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 08-20-2001 01:37 AM
Actually NSS marketed them as the Simplex 'Aeromatic' or 'SAM' Platter. They were very noisy, and after a couple of people got scalped by the braces under the discs, Simplex discontinued them. Bob Potts went on to build an electric platter. The braces under the discs were a Z extrusion (with SHARP edges)and had the leading edge of the Z facing the direction of rotation! Thus, if the operator placed his head under a rotating disc, (to pre thread the disc, etc) and raised up, the Z metal would remove a piece of his scalp!! I know of two operators that this happened to!------------------ John Eickhof President, Chief Slave Northwest Theatre Equipment Co., Inc. P.O.Box 258 Wendell, ID. 83355-0258 208-536-5489 email: jeickhof@nteequip.com
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