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Ken Lackner
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1907
From: Atlanta, GA, USA
Registered: Sep 2001

posted 10-24-2001 11:22 AM

Just make sure you don't use Simplex oil to fry your chicken and put cooking oil in your projector!

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Jerry Chase
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1068
From: Margate, FL, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 10-24-2001 11:38 AM

Are you concerned the chicken would have a Strong flavor?
<grin, duck & run>

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John Pytlak
Film God

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From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 10-24-2001 12:48 PM

Jerry --- you better grin, duck and run, since that was NOT the pun of the Century.

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Randy Stankey
Film God

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From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 10-24-2001 02:00 PM

So, Pat, when are you going to make a projector console that has a chicken frier built in? Projectionists get hungry too, Y'Know!

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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster

Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 10-24-2001 02:22 PM

Randy,
Fried foods are bad for you! Too much grease to plug your arteries. For several years now I've been grilling my chickens inside the lamphouse on a special "Projectionists Grill" that fits right inside of a Super Highlite. Calculating the current vs. proper cook times was a bit trying at times and I had several chickens go up in flames from the high voltage ignitor pulse. Those things have since been "rectified" and it now works beautifully. A big advantage is that it is arranged so the grease dripping off is caught and is fed into the either the projector, or SH-1000 gear box for lube. If ya like to grill alot it will mean never having to add lube to either the projector or soundhead!

I am in negotiations with Strong for them to go into production on the line next to where the Super Highlites are made. With minor modifications it will also fit a Christie SLX and a Neumade however neither of the other companies have expressed any interest in them as of yet. Watch for upcomming Strong infomercial hosted by George Foreman on late night TV.
Mark @ GTS

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Freddie Dobbs
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 115
From: Pinson, AL, USA
Registered: Jun 2001

posted 10-24-2001 02:39 PM

Jerry & John,

Please, oh, please, refrain from going there, that hurt my eyes!

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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 10-24-2001 05:02 PM

If anyone should know about fried foods, it's Mark G!

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William T. Parr
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 823
From: Cedar Park, TX
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 10-24-2001 05:19 PM

Hey Mark,

You think the catch phrase in the Strong Infomercial by George Foreman will be something like 5 out of 6 George Foreman's prefer Strong Equipment in their Movie Theatre?

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Gordon McLeod
Film God

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From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 10-24-2001 08:07 PM

Actually I once got fryers in a cratse that was marked and whould have been a pro35s years ago

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Randy Stankey
Film God

Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 10-24-2001 09:20 PM

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Mark G: Calculating the current vs. proper cook times was a bit trying at times and I had several chickens go up in flames from the high voltage ignitor pulse.

Gives a new meaning to the words, "Fried" Chicken... doesn't it?

No matter. We have to do something! Gone are the days when projectionists could heat their lunch inside the lamphouse!

Y'Know, I've often had thoughts about hiding a keg of beer inside the back of a CFS console and installing a tap on the side of it. Only problem is that it'd soon be piss warm from all the heat. Since Strong is making retorfit parts for the CFS console, maybe they could put a refrigeration unit in there.

No, seriously, now...
Since Strong's "other" business is making food service equipment, It'd be neat to know how much food service equipment it sells to theatres.
Allied industries, doncha' know.

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Pete Lawrence
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 192
From: Middleburg, PA
Registered: Aug 1999

posted 10-24-2001 10:34 PM

There's this rumor about a new design:

with apologies to Pat Moore and Ron Popeil.

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William T. Parr
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 823
From: Cedar Park, TX
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 10-24-2001 11:56 PM

Hey Shouldn't those be on the optional Rotissiore below the Lamp?

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Jon Miller
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 973
From: San Diego, CA, USA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 10-25-2001 12:20 AM

Speaking of cinema products manufactured by Strong (or should I say, once manufactured by Strong) adapted for cookery...

Some time ago I read an account of an incident from a long time ago, of some hapless projectionist who stuck a can of baked beans inside an operating Peerless Magnarc, apparently failing to poke holes in the can to relieve the pressure and forgetting he'd placed the can in the lamphouse (IIRC, he was distracted). Well, the can exploded, spewing beans everywhere and creating a mess in the booth that makes the aftermath of a xenon lamp going bang seem minor by comparison.

Anybody recall that yarn?

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Pete Lawrence
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 192
From: Middleburg, PA
Registered: Aug 1999

posted 10-25-2001 12:26 AM

I used to keep pizza warm in an Ashcraft carbon-arc lamphouse. And that's for real! Never had an explosion though.

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Don Sneed
Master Film Handler

Posts: 451
From: Texas City, TX, USA
Registered: Aug 2001

posted 10-25-2001 03:49 AM

My first Projection job was at a single screen theatre (Downtown Galveston) we had a RCA tube amplifiers from 1937 still working, we would place a sandwich or a Honey bun (cinammon roll not the candy girl) on top of the amps, in a couple of hrs. they were hot & ready to eat !!! I hated to see those amps go when they upgraded to soild state "mono amps".....I never tried in the carbon lamp, was alway scare of getting carbon dust in my sandwich....

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