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Topic: Draining Oil on Simplex 35
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Manny Knowles
"What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???"
Posts: 4247
From: Bloomington, IN, USA
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 06-22-2002 04:34 PM
Seeing that photo brings back some nice memories for me. I used to work with those projectors at the AMC in Pasadena, but they had a motorized turret for the lenses. I loved those projectors.If it's anything like changing the oil in the Prevost P-93 then you might just need to get a dishpan and hold it up to the outlet at an angle to catch all of the initial splash-out. I hold the pan at the front corner to catch the oil that slides down on the body of the projector. Joe: You don't seem like the sort of guy that needs anyone to point out the obvious, but someone else might read this in a year's time...So have a good supply of paper towels and your favorite degreasing product on hand to clean up the outside (and the inside). Is that an Orcon 1600 lamphouse/console? I'm sure there are a lot of people using those Simplexes and it will be interesting to read about their first-hand advice. [EDITED: Wow! I guess there's a major difference between that machine and the Prevost, which takes about a quart of oil.]
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Ken Lackner
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1907
From: Atlanta, GA, USA
Registered: Sep 2001
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posted 06-22-2002 10:43 PM
A tech I know had an ingenius (sp?) idea. He did this to all the Simplexes in his service area. He removed the petcock, screwed in some sort of tap or spout in its placed, and stuck about a 2-foot long tube (looked kinda like fishtank air hose, but thicker) onto the spout. At the other end of the tube was a cork, and a hook. The hook is used to hook the tube in an upright position when not in use and the cork is for, well, keeping the oil in.  All you have to do to drain the oil now is remove the cork and lower the end of the tube into an empty container...just like a Kiniton. I even used the hook to hang an empty Simplex oil can so it can drain for a really long time without me babysitting. It worked great! If I can get a pic I'll post it here.Don't forget to remove the back cover and clean the filter whenever the oil is changed. That thing can get pretty nasty. ------------------
This one time, at Projection Camp, I stuck a xenon bulb....
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Lance C. McFetridge
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 135
From: Penn Yan, New York
Registered: Jul 99
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posted 07-31-2002 12:48 PM
I removed the factory installed petcock, took a trip to the plumbing store, purchased a brass nipple threaded on both ends. Purchased a brass elbow, reinstalled the petcock in the elbow, assembled as shown and it works well. Still takes a bit of time to drain all the oil. Prefered brass as to not strip the threads in the casting.
Hope this helps.
lance  
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