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Author Topic: The heaviest thing you ever had to pack up or down to the booth Aaron Mehocic Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 804 From: New Castle, PA, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-30-1999 03:25 PM                     About six years ago, me and another kid in high school had to get a xetron recifier upstairs. It wasn't too bad. Mostly I complain about long films that come in three or more cans.  |  IP: Logged Wallace Logan Film Handler Posts: 26 From: Ottawa Ontario Canada Registered: Nov 1999 posted 11-30-1999 07:07 PM                     The heaviest thing I had to lift was all ready in the booth, it was a three screen booth it had vic 8 projectors with a cinimacanica automation pins, with autoreavers man it was noisy the place was 40 years old. When I stared the reavers quit working so we had to rewind by table then lift it back up to the magazine these reels held 12000 feet.The shaft is a foot over my head. I put a Disney print on one reel man that was heavy. ------------------  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 11-30-1999 09:17 PM                        Oh yeah, I almost forgot! During a very brief stint at the $1 Theatres, I had to help move the sattelite concession stand up the stairs. They had redecorated the place and didn't ant 2 stands.  |  IP: Logged Rick Long Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 759 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Registered: Nov 1999 posted 12-01-1999 05:56 PM                     Belleville, Ontario new (at the time) installation - four-plex. Only entrance to the booth available (during installation) was up an outside steel fire escape with a 90-degree turn at the top. Naturally, it was raining when we delivered the equipment which made for a somewhat slippery trip. The Cinemeccanica projectors and lamp-houses were separately boxed in parts and weren't too bad, the Kneisley rectifiers caused a few groans, but the real ball-busters were the main post assembies of the O.R.C. CP-302E platters. Ocassionally when I run into one of the projectionists (now working at another theatre), he reminds me of the time I caused him to get a hernia. It has cost me a few lunches now and then.  |  IP: Logged

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