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Topic: A Newbie's Question on Equipment
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Kenneth Wuepper
Phenomenal Film Handler
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Posts: 1026
From: Saginaw, MI, USA
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 08-02-2002 08:08 AM
Hello, Bruce,The comments about the Kodak Pageant being hard to work on... I wonder what you found hard about them? My first job in media was with a large AV service company. We were dealers for Ampro equipment and later also Bell & Howell. I serviced about 1,200 machines a year. Of these, the Bell & Howells were more difficult to access. They also left a teltale scratch between the soundtrack and the image on every film they ran. The Ampros had a unique film shuttle mechanism which had to be lapped into fit. They ran forever and were very easy on film. My second job, as media director for a school system (29 years) included maintenance of the entire school district media equipment. They had 60 RCA projectors, an RCA film chain in my TV studio and 30 Kodak Pageant projectors which were built into large cases with the machine inside and, using a first surface mirror, projected on a plastic RP screen. These were made by the Bush Film and Equipment Co. of Saginaw, MI.. They were meant for showing films in "undarkened" classrooms. The film advance claws and cams were marvels of ingenuity, as the cam wore, the framing slowly shifted. Replacing the cam and claw was a 2 minute job and you knew when to do it as you couldn't make the image come into perfect frame. Jeff,
We had Eiki machines in the Intermediate School District media service. As a factory certified tech for that product, I was impressed with the film advance mechanism. The entire mechanism "Cam Tank" could be removed and cleaned and lubricated then returned to the machine. We kept a couple of "tanks" on the shelf for quick turn around. Couldn't say there were any problems which were common to many machines. Usually the equipment was in need of cleaning or disaster control from the fact that they were not TEACHER PROOF! ![](http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/mad.gif) KEN
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Kenneth Wuepper
Phenomenal Film Handler
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Posts: 1026
From: Saginaw, MI, USA
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 08-02-2002 07:13 PM
Gordon,Our Favorit 16B is a lot like a "housebroken Simplex XL" The framing device is terrible as it moved the aperture and the machine has to be re-leveled. Mark, Be kind to an old tech. That Lubriplate was the greatest in 1950. A couple of those machines are still running in the local library. KEN
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