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Topic: Platter Problems
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Alex Cross
Film Handler
Posts: 34
From: Eccleshill, Brafdord, West Yorkshire,
Registered: Dec 2005
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posted 03-23-2007 03:47 AM
I can't really think of anything that wouldn't have pulled some film into the feed unit,other than the potentiometer. Static, adhesive, and odd bit of splicing tape would have tried to drag something through. I would imagine you've run that programe all week without any problems. I don't know of any tests you can do, short of changing the potentiometer, and they're £40-£90. The one thing I did find when mine started playing up, was that when lacing the film through the feed unit, moving the 'T' bar very slightly, the plate jerked, as if fast feeding. Hope this helps.
Alex
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Patrick Watkinson
Film Handler
Posts: 19
From: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 03-28-2007 11:29 PM
Wow, my very first post, I am so excited
William, I had a similar problem with a print. I think I see a similarity in where the problem occurred. You said it was at the Dolby Digital trailer portion of the film (and I recognize the acetate colour from the picture). My old cinema had ordered these little trailers to tag onto each film. They look cool and all but they have one problem: while manufacturing, dolby reels all of them on the “unconventional” way that prints are reeled onto collars. If you have been beside the platter system while the film reaches the first splice, you will notice that it has a tendency to curl in the opposite direction. I believe this, and perhaps some splicing tape resulted in your brain wrap.
My own experience with the darn Dolby trailers goes a little something like this:
It was the first showing of “field of our fathers” and I was on the floor in cinema #1 double checking the entire beginning of the print before the feature( all the corporate trailers, preview trailers and such). The film is now at the Dolby trailer, all is fine until it gets about 5 seconds from the end, the picture shifts upwards and then vibrates, and then the sound fails and I see the picture start to melt… Projector #1 alarm goes off, I dash upstairs…
- turns out, right at the splice, the dolby film had formed a loop and wedged itself in the potentiometer arm in the brain. After several wraps around the brain, this caused the film to jam, until the tension was great enough for the safety to engage and send the projector into alarm. Solution: remove the darn trailer.
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