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Author Topic: Ed Wolk company closed Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 12-04-2013 03:21 PM                       Don Markus called over the week end and he told me he was discarding the last of everything as we spoke. He did say he sent his Simplex and Century apertures to James Bond of Full Aperture. Also, perhaps a few gears but apart from that, he said it's all gone. Sad but inevitable.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 12-04-2013 03:52 PM                        I know how he feels. My "stash" is about to have its final resolution. Offer being now considered for the building. Louis  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 12-04-2013 05:39 PM                       Louis, I would make a list of what you have for the record and post it here so some of us can make a last buy. It won't be too long before it will be very difficult to find gears, bands and what not. It bothered me that Don did not do this but he never was a joiner.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-04-2013 09:23 PM                     Yeah...I was disappointed that he didn't do what LaVezzi did in telling his dealers that he was shutting it down...then one could do that "last buy." The problem is, there are wearable items in the projectors were the last parts are now gone. Even a silly Simplex rubber pinch roller is NLA. Though there are many on existing machines, they are a wear item. How about the Century GR-8? That is a wear item and any existing machines that use it, will have a worn one. (The same would be true for the other Century fiber gears...I was just using the GR-8 as an example). I know that we, at Cardinal, want to support film machines as long as possible but it has become extremely difficult for domestic machines, all of the sudden.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-04-2013 11:53 PM                     quote: Steve Guttag Even a silly Simplex rubber pinch roller is NLA. Though there are many on existing machines, they are a wear item. Yup, and they put wear onto the film prints too. GOOD RIDDANCE!!!  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-05-2013 06:48 AM                     Except they are an essential part of the Simplex soundhead and now that changeovers are the rule (again)...can not be dispensed with.  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 12-05-2013 07:53 AM                     What do changeovers have to do with it? Were they ever dispensable? Have you seen Joe's modification in the Warehouse? I never personally tried it, but it looks like a really cool idea. Very sad about Wolk.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-05-2013 12:08 PM                        Ugh. This is sad news for all concerned. It would have been nice (and maybe lucrative for them) if they had done a fire sale before dumping the parts, though. Can the soundhead pinch rollers be rebuilt with new rubber? I know that there are companies that do this for tape recorder pinch rollers, and these are not all that much different. Is there a list somewhere of the "wear items" that we should all be hoarding? I'm thinking trap bands, springs, any and all gears, sprockets, pad rollers, soundhead pinch rollers, bearings, and, of course, intermittents. No doubt, I am missing some important items here.  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 12-05-2013 01:11 PM                     "In 100 years it isn't going to make a bit of difference" - Charlie Wolk  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 12-05-2013 01:33 PM                        I have quite a number of brand new LaVezzi overhaul kit for XL and Century all models. Louis  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-05-2013 03:44 PM                     I think there's no doubt that Don probably wants to retire by now. It woulda been nice as Steve said if he had notified everyoen. He'd be tossing much less stuff in the trash if he had. There is still LIT which also has many parts in stock but mainly just surplus... Mark  |  IP: Logged John Eickhof Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 588 From: Wendell, ID USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 12-05-2013 05:29 PM                        Unfortunate but inevitable, the end of another long time trademark! FYI, I have not d-8'ed my parts yet! (Over 25,000 items) Including the elusive pinch rollers for IPC and RCA! Happy holidays to all!  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-06-2013 06:44 AM                     Ken, with changeovers...your impedance drum has to be up to speed before the changeover occurs or within 7 seconds...particularly if you have a basement digital reader that has to be stable before the changeover. Without the pinch roller, you'll never make it and have flutter in analog and no digital.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 12-06-2013 07:17 AM                        For those who are sitting on substantial stocks of film projector parts, might it be worth a systematic sales outreach to the archive/rep/cinematheque type places that are going to try to continue running film, at least into the medium-term future? AMIA's film advocacy task force might be a good place to start. They might want to mailshot their members, sending them to this site's for sale board, perhaps post 'for sale' lists themselves, or offer some such solution. It just strikes me that at the moment, there is probably a small but definite group out there who could really use this stuff (especially, as Steve points out, the life-limited parts that, once unavailable, effectively brick the projector), and that with the right connections made, the people and companies that have surplus inventories that they no longer want to carry could at least monetise them to a small extent.  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 12-06-2013 08:39 AM                     Steve, I've had flutter in analog in platter houses when the lateral guide assembly containing that rubber pinch roller was not closed. Seems to me it's necessary either way. quote: Leo Enticknap effectively brick the projector You mean boat anchor the projector.  |  IP: Logged

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