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Rick Long
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 759
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-03-1999 09:50 PM
Stephen, as a tech myself, let me suggest a cure for this problem. At the end of the service call, when the tech has gone to wash his hands, answer a page or whatever, sweep up the solder bits, wire, and aperture dust, and dump them into his tool box. You may have to do this on several calls before he gets the idea.
Sorta like training your dog not to go on the carpet - techs just take a lot longer to catch on.
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William Hooper
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1879
From: Mobile, AL USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 10-11-1999 02:43 AM
Regular paint on cement floors (walls, ceilings, ornamental pilasters) will almost always be fairly short-lived. The paint for cement is 2-part epoxy paint; the paint store will know what you want. Get application instructions, deal with the muriatic acid. Nasty going on, nearly bulletproof when its done. You'll love it if you've got it.Regular paint on cement will forever be chipping, peeling, etc. Do it right the first time: if regular paint is already on the cement, it's scraping, and/or blasting to get the wrong stuff off before the new stuff goes on. Inherited piebald regular paint on the booth floor here, wonderful (except for the application) 2-part epoxy in other areas with painted cement floors & walls.
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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man
Posts: 4718
From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 06-25-2001 08:22 PM
Bring your house trained dog in the booth. He'll eat the furballs, and throw them up in just one pile for you. Dogs are excellent carpet cleaners. They'll eat anything, such as popcorn and candy, and lick up projector and popcorn oil. They also make good garbage disposals for the hot dogs that have to be charged off to spoilage. They are good alert alarms if unauthorized personnel enter your forbidden territory. They love the TES people, too. (What more can you possibly ask for?) They also use their paws to collect splice tape and cue tape remnants, just to mention a few. And, they keep you company on long 10 to 12 hour shifts.  Seriously, I prefer carpeted booths, as they cut down the ambient noise, as well as the strain on feet, ankles, knees, and legs. If the booth floor carpet is swept daily with a vacuum sweeper, and cleaned with a steam cleaner on a regular basis, the dust problem is negligable. (providing, of course, an industrial grade of carpet is used)
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David Kilderry
Master Film Handler
Posts: 355
From: Melbourne Australia
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 06-26-2001 06:30 AM
Carpet was not too bad in some old single screeners once the carbons were removed but............... At a sixplex that I worked at cheap carpet was installed in all boxes (booths) if it was not vaccumed weekly it accumulated all sorts of dust and other debris that often found its way onto leaders and tails. One amusing occurrence directly related to the carpet was with our brand new (back then) Dolby CP 200. We ran 70mm all the time on spools with Vic 8's. As you selected your next format for the change-over and waited to hit "GO" it sometimes changed over the sound before you hit the button! This was due to a static charge picked up from the carpet that would arc from your finger when you were still half an inch away. I can tell you on a full house for "Raiders" it was very embarrassing!!!! David Kilderry
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