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Author Topic: Christie AW-3R Center Payout Question Don Furr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 509 From: Sun City, Ca USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 05-20-2014 10:56 PM                     I'm setting up my AW-3 and I have around 25 different center payout modules to choose from. Most have the usual three plastic rollers in the center but I have several that have 2 plastic and one metal roller. I'm assuming the metal units are the older ones. Should I use the payouts with the three plastic rollers?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-20-2014 11:06 PM                     Stick with 3 plastic GREEN rollers. Also don't get a brain with the older style stripper posts on it. The two in this drawing show the old type where if the film has any curl to it at all it can cause a scratch down the center of the film. This picture shows the good kind. (Just barely visible) Also stay away from the short payout arms. The longer arms almost reach to the edge of the black center feed plate, which is what you want. At some point when you visit I'll go over the various settings and practices for you.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-21-2014 05:36 AM                     The metal roller...was actually a later incarnation. It was one of the things that combated static by grounding the film. It was normally placed as the last roller that left the centerfeed. I preferred them over the plastic ones as it turned true since it had something other than delrin for a bearing surface. It would lessen the bounce. in fact, use of the MUT rollers for flanged and the metal flangeless throughout would yield a very stable feed from platter to projector. Stay away from the black rollers though. They never turn true.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-21-2014 11:53 AM                     I never had a problem. Then again I never threaded like so many people that drag their fingers through the rollers instead of gently sliding the film into them. I can see what you mean by using the MUT roller though.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-21-2014 02:12 PM                     And remove the dam spring inside the center roller!  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 05-21-2014 03:43 PM                     Brad, it's tough to see what you are referring to when comparing the top drawing with the bottom photo, which also happens to be at a completely different angle than the drawing. Could you describe in a little more detail what it is that should be avoided?  |  IP: Logged

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