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Topic: Portacine 35x Porjector refurbish
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Tony Smith
Film Handler
Posts: 42
From: worcester,worcestershire, england ,UK
Registered: Sep 2012
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posted 03-28-2015 05:24 PM
Hi Folks AS it seems that the Cinemeccanica Portacine 35x is not may be known to you folks, I will inform you asto the progress with the refurbishment.
A lot of the projector side of things is taken from Vitoria5, but the take up reel has it's own motor, on the back of the take up reel, it also has a rewind mode so the film can be rewound on the projector.
The biggest let down is that the audio side of the projector has been "Got At" what was a mono pick up cell system, with line output XLR plus built in audio monitor with LS, is now a twin Cell pick up, with a Velleman 2.5 watt anplifier kit as preamps and 2x phono output as what? line or LS feeds, not sure all other bits all removed. The audio mods are all in a plastic box with floting ground, run from a plug top PSU, via a dc voltage regulator. We intend to put the audio back to as it was.
Tony Smith
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Leo Enticknap
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Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 03-29-2015 02:18 PM
I guess it depends on what you're going to use the projector for when you've finished restoring it.
If you want it for genuinely portable use (e.g. one-off shows in venues that have no permanently installed 35mm equipment, or maybe even no permanent a/v equipment at all), then mono with at least integrated preamp and possibly power amp at all might be the way to go. You won't have stereo, but as with the classroom 16mm machines "back in the day", all you'd need to do at the venue is to connect a single speaker on the end of a long wire.
But if you're going to use it in a home cinema or other venue - at least, most of the time - where the cell's output can be connected to an audio rack, then a stereo cell hooked up to a Dolby processor (used CP45s and 55s can be picked up for almost nothing on Ebay, the last time I looked), with no signal processing taking place in the projector, would seem to me to be the way to go. But if you did that, the projector wouldn't really be portable any more, because you could only use it (apart from showing silent films) at a venue which has a CP and power amp rack.
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Tony Smith
Film Handler
Posts: 42
From: worcester,worcestershire, england ,UK
Registered: Sep 2012
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posted 04-07-2015 04:15 PM
Hi Folks Slowly working my way through the portacine 35x, one question which I may know the reason for but, when I took the Lamphouse off, the turbo fan which is the top unit, draws air via the rear panel groves, to cool the lamp, had in the fan about 6 or so small, almost like ceramic pellets,I first thought they were some form of brick chips, but I wonder if they are there to keep the turbo fan blades clean? Never encountered this before is this correct?
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