In most cases we run the cleaner on all new prints (assuming they are in the big house) and do touch-up treatments as needed on the smaller houses.

Aaron

***load up new media pads and saturate them***
Fri...brand new print #1

***change to new media pads (save Friday's pads) and saturate them***
Sat...brand new print #2

***keep same media pads from Saturday, but re-saturate them***
Sun...print #3

***keep same media pads from Saturday, but re-saturate them***
Mon...print #4

***load up media pads from Friday and re-saturate them***
Tue...print #5

***keep same media pads from Friday, but re-saturate them***
Wed...print #6

Thu...use the cleaner for any touch-ups you feel necessary (or put it on a film that is expected to play for a long time). Be sure to throw away all media pads used that week and start fresh every Friday.

This way you can hit all of your prints for a full day's worth of running all week long with only using 2 sets of media pads. That'll last you an entire month on one box and one bottle of FilmGuard should be enough for everything in a month's span as well.

Another tip...If you are buying Film-Tech brand media pads, our new ones (as of the last few months now) are being loaded to the maximum the cleaning machines can handle and cutting them in half will double the effective number of "rolls" you will get in a box.

Final note...If you are having shedding problems on the 2nd new print that will not get cleaned until Saturday, take a cloth and spray some FilmGuard on it fairly generously and with the platter spinning at a good speed, wipe the top of the print slowly starting from the outer edge and wiping toward the center. Run the first show "soundtrack upside down" from normal practice and repeat for the other side. This trick won't actually clean your print, but it will stop most of the shedding and cut most of the static.

Glad you like it.

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We run one show daily, three on Sunday, and sometimes a late showing on Friday and/or Saturday nights if it's a very popular film.

If we ran the first showing through a cleaner with Film Guard, would the film stay in good shape throughout it's run? We have PTR rollers which are cleaned daily, would the Film Guard treatment replace the PTR system?

Thanks,

The situation you describe is almost exactly the same as mine here, except we only run one show on Sunday.

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I checked the "manuals" section here but just found line drawings that don't really tell the story. Before I go out and spend $600+ on something I want to be sure that I can mount it and use it.

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Then it should be easy to add the Kelmar cleaner. The cleaner comes with a projector bracket that will mount perfectly atop the Brenkert (or on top of any digital/mag penthouse readers you might have).The top reel arm/platter hardware mounts on top of the bracket. You might have to radically alter your top guidance pulley to accomodate running the machine with or without the cleaner (in many cases the angles change slightly between 'cleaner on' and 'cleaner off'). If you want to add this to the platter, you will likely have to drill and tap your platter tree and get a platter bracket from Kelmar. (the only platters that come factory ready for this cleaner are the Christie AW3/MW3's). Good luck!

And yes, Throw away the PTRs, They are not compatible with FG and the FG solution may actually destroy the PTR surfaces. (you will never want to use a set of PTRs again anyways after using FG!)

Aaron

For those that want to see a film cleaner projector mounted, check out the South Branch Cinema 6 photos in the gallery.

Steve