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Author Topic: Booth and Projector Cleaning Zack Strickland Film Handler Posts: 23 From: Dallas, GA, USA Registered: Nov 2009 posted 03-07-2010 07:07 PM                     In the booth where i work, we really don't have any kind of regimen for cleaning projectors, portholes and platter systems. I am posting to consult the film-tech knowledge base of gurus as to how to implement healthy booth cleaning procedures. If anyone knowledgeable could please reply with directions on how to clean and what your theater's booth does and how often and how are your projectionists kept accountable for their duty's. Also, if anyone knows where to look, like a manual, guidebook, or training guide, or another post or thread, that would be great too. Thanks. Here are some pictures of our setup: We have 12 35mm Projectors Setups: our platters: Projector up close shot: Another: Projector, Lamphouse, and Automation Board And 2 Digital Setups: Digi Projector: Show Store (digital projection computer):  |  IP: Logged Michael Voiland Expert Film Handler Posts: 219 From: Naperville, IL US Registered: Aug 2009 posted 03-07-2010 07:18 PM                     Projector cleaning is done daily at my theater. We have a check sheet for closers. So each day all projectors are cleaned and shut down at the end of the night. So tooth brush / rags / qtips are used to clean the machines. Platters are cleaned with iso alcohol once a week All lenses scope and flat are cleaned weekly We do a deep cleaning of the projectors making sure to get the tops sides and inside where lots of dirt accumulates weekly Portholes are cleaned with windex / ecolabs glass cleaner We sweep once a week and mop once a week. Other jobs are assigned as needed on a task board.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 03-07-2010 08:02 PM                     quote: Michael Voiland Platters are cleaned with iso alcohol once a week You can also use a bucket of hot water and a couple of rags on the decks - one to wash and the other to dry. Using water leaves no residue and is non-flammable. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Manny Montes Master Film Handler Posts: 270 From: United States Registered: Feb 2010 posted 03-07-2010 08:18 PM                     We clean our projectors by dusting them out first with a paintbrush, then clean inbetween the sprockets with a toothbrush sprayed with film guard. We clean the platters with simple green and a rag.  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 03-07-2010 09:14 PM                     Actually, from your pictures your machines look pretty clean! I clean mine daily before opening, or sometimes at closing if I've got some time to kill before my bus ride home comes. I try to clean the platters once a week but sometimes it's every other week if I've been busy with other things. Booths get swept or vacuumed (depending on the which booth- they have different floor surfaces) once a week. For awhile, I had been using 'shop towels' from a local hardware store to wipe things down, but they left too many threads & lint behind. I found I can get cheap, slightly irregular, white kitchen dish towels here in San Francisco's Chinatown that work just fine for projector-wiping and they don't shed lint. I also bought a wholebuncha cheap tooth and paint brushes there too. They're not the best quality. I really don't think they'd work well for brushing teeth or painting, but they're GREAT for cleaning projectors & platters! And they were inexpensive!  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 03-08-2010 12:07 AM                     quote: Manny Montes We clean the platters with simple green and a rag. I bet a wooden nickel for a "McD's" Whopper that if you washed the decks with just hot water, that water bucket will be full of suds due to the soap residue that is being left behind on the decks. quote: I also bought a wholebuncha cheap tooth brushes... What's great about tooth brushes, is that you cut down the bristles to where they are more firmer, soak the brush in FG and this really does wonders on cleaning all of the sprockets. Even using FG on a rag to wipe out the trap and gate area does wonders as well. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-08-2010 12:28 AM                        If you apply Filmguard to your film cleaning pads, you'll need to clean out your projectors much less... if used properly.  |  IP: Logged Joe Elliott Master Film Handler Posts: 497 From: Port Orange, Fl USA Registered: Oct 2006 posted 03-08-2010 12:45 PM                     quote: Monte L Fullmer What's great about tooth brushes, is that you cut down the bristles to where they are more firmer, soak the brush in FG and this really does wonders on cleaning all of the sprockets. My major problem with the cleaning my guys do is the filmguard they get on the lens turrets when they clean the sprockets. I had not thought about cutting down the toothbrush bristles, but I can see how that would help with the cleaning, and solve the filmguard being flicked off the bristles.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 03-08-2010 01:40 PM                     quote: Joe Elliott filmguard they get on the lens turrets when they clean the sprockets ....have them cover the turrets with a large rag or towel, or open the turret then cover it....  |  IP: Logged

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