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Author Topic: Century MSA Projectors ? Steve Matz Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 672 From: Billings, Montana, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 03-20-2014 04:41 PM                     Never seen Century Projectors in this configuration. Someone tell me whats going on here  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 03-20-2014 05:27 PM                       Hard to tell from the way they are piled. What is the question?  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 03-20-2014 06:42 PM                        Must be the "no motor" model.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-20-2014 10:23 PM                     That's the hand crank version!  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 03-29-2014 12:08 PM                     They look normal to me - what oddness do you see? These are basicly SA projectors with the motor plates removed. I don't recall what the "M" means - water cooled gate maybe? Regardless, there are many Century projectors where the nameplate doesn't match the actual configuration - Wolk and others rebuilt hundreds of used projectors - and if a direct drive double shutter unit went in, it would probably come out as a standard SA bearing the original nameplate designation.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-29-2014 06:01 PM                        "M" is the direct-drive version. What is the thing under the motor mount on the bottom machine? Some sort of encoder for use with a dubber or 3D interlock? Or a separate drive motor for the takeup mechanism?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-29-2014 07:12 PM                     That "thing" under the motor is the left spindle side of the Newmade rewind table it's sitting on.  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 03-30-2014 01:48 PM                     Looks like the seller plopped them down to take their picture for Ebone. Probably taken out from a digitally converted cinema or a closed due to inability to convert cinema.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-01-2014 06:24 AM                        Mark--thanks. I am an idiot for not noticing that....  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-01-2014 10:29 PM                     No, you're not an idiot! I also thought it some sort of interlock contrivance at first. Then I realized these are sitting atop a Neumade rewind table.  |  IP: Logged

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