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Jon Bartow
Master Film Handler

Posts: 287
From: Massachusetts
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 01-28-2002 09:38 PM

Does anyone know if anyone makes a trailer flange for winding trailers on a strong MUT? Or perhaps a split reel meant for trailer cores that will work on a Strong MUT?

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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man

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

posted 01-28-2002 09:51 PM

I think Neumade does. It is kind of like a small split reel.

I wish Strong International would make a table spindle like the old CFS Mut's. The spindle was keyed just like the spindles were on the upper and lower reel spindles in the magazines and old Goldberg electric rewinds of years past. One spindle fits all.

Neumade made a keyed adapter to fit those spindles, and that is all you would need. Any preview core would fit them without a bunch of cheezy adapters needed to make it fit.

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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!

Posts: 12814
From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 01-28-2002 10:02 PM

Strong does indeed have a trailer flange for use with their MUT...it uses those large holes in the drive spindles to power it...it is large too so even a whole reel may be loaded.

Steve

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Jon Bartow
Master Film Handler

Posts: 287
From: Massachusetts
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 01-28-2002 10:05 PM

Thanks Steve

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Wes Hughes
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 175
From: Raleigh, NC, USA
Registered: Aug 2001

posted 01-29-2002 11:42 PM

I drilled two holes in a regular trailer flange and attached a little piece of aluminum bar to the bottom or the flange to contact the side of the spindle on the MUT. The only disadvantage is you have to remove the dog from the spindle to use it.

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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man

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

posted 08-18-2002 11:38 PM

Tired of handling those pesky previews? Here is a sure fire way to do it.

Pictures taken by Adam Wilbert.

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Ken Layton
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1452
From: Olympia, Wash. USA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 08-19-2002 06:11 PM

Strong already makes the adapter. It's called "MAKE-UP TABLE ADAPTER PLATE" and comes in two styles depending on the type of reel drive plate your table has. Early style (rectangular) drive plates order #3931, whereas current style (round) drive plates order #3930. This info is detailed in Product Information Bulletin #3915.

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Steve Kraus
Film God

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From: Chicago, IL, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 08-19-2002 08:21 PM

Who's the young lady Paul?

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Gordon McLeod
Film God

Posts: 9532
From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-19-2002 08:29 PM

Paul are you holding out on us?

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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man

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

posted 08-19-2002 08:43 PM

Cute, isn't she?

Actually, she is one of our assistant managers. Very pleasent personality, too.

She was laughing quite hard when we were doing this spoof, especially when I was beating the film down with the orange tube.

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Gordon McLeod
Film God

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From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-21-2002 11:03 AM

Ok paul we have the girl issue cleared up and I see the mandatory bottle of film guard on the make up table but why is the WD40 present?

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Jason Black
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1723
From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 08-21-2002 11:08 AM

And let's not overlook the famed 'weenie' hangin from his mouth!

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Scott Norwood
Film God

Posts: 8146
From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-21-2002 11:23 AM

Well, we all know how much Paul likes to use WD-40 in the booth!

WD-40 fixes _everything_ --even DTS units. Just ask Joe.

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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man

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

posted 08-28-2002 06:49 PM

Actually, I tried to do everything wrong when I did these pictures. Notice the splicer shear bar is open? Notice the splicer is also open? (both no-no's.) Notice all the crap on the MUT? Notice I was dragging the film over the edge of the table? You can't help but notice I was beating the convolutions down when it telescopes.

The only thing I wanted to show that "IS RIGHT" was the presence of a bottle of Film-Guard.

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Adam Wilbert
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 590
From: Bellingham, WA, USA
Registered: Mar 2002

posted 08-28-2002 07:07 PM

C'mon paul, you know having Jessica around is also the right way to do things.

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