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Dustin Mitchell
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1865
From: Mondovi, WI, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 04-14-2000 06:43 PM

quote:
Originally posted by John Wilson:
OK...What have you done with the real Dustin?

Yes, I have seen the light (Gordon, you reading this?). I guess opaque splicing tape is like changeover cues. You can go to movies for years and not notice them, but as soon as someone points them out you see them every time. Now that people have pointed out the deficencies of opaque tape I can see them and it is annoying.

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Gordon McLeod
Film God

Posts: 9532
From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 04-15-2000 11:32 AM

Dustin a convert My life has finally had a purepose

In respect to splicers I use the CIR exclusivly and never have any problems with them. The knockoffs of them are crap
If 2 layers of tape are left across the bridge and no one triesx to clean out the perfhole they give little problem. Once a month I take the blade out and soak it in spirits to remove gum and sharpen it on a stone
Marble splicers are the worst

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Ari Nordström
Master Film Handler

Posts: 283
From: Göteborg, Sweden
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 04-15-2000 04:14 PM

I've never had the chance to try anything else than CIR tape splicers, 16 or 35, so I guess I don't have anything to compare them to. The 70mm tape splicer I use is unmarked - it doesn't have any brand name on it - so I don't know about that. It looks like a CIR to me.

Many of the 35mm CIR splicers I've used through the years have been less than perfect. I clean them regularly but those little %&¤## sticky squares are hard to get rid of. The 16mm version is better. I've never had any trouble with it.

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Gordon McLeod
Film God

Posts: 9532
From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 04-15-2000 04:37 PM

To quote the CIR manual do not attempt to clean out the holes in the splicer bridge.
The idea is that the perf cutouts stick to the one at the top in the bridge and not on the print.
Never had a problem with the perforator yet

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Ari Nordström
Master Film Handler

Posts: 283
From: Göteborg, Sweden
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 04-15-2000 04:50 PM

Gordon,

I realised this early on. The problem is that the cutouts do get stuck on the print rather than on the previous cutout, and while the CIR splicer I use now is fairly OK, it's far from perfect. The extra time I have to use inspecting and cleaning the splice is annoying.

I never got a manual with my CIR, though.

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Mike Blakesley
Film God

Posts: 12767
From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99

posted 04-15-2000 05:02 PM

I have a Guillotine splicer that has been in my booth for 21 years. It still works well. The only thing I've had to replace on it is the trim blade (once) and the handle (twice)-- the original handle was Bakelite, and it broke; the second handle was made of pot-metal and it just wore thru at the pivot points. This splicer looks a lot like the CIR one in Brad's photo. Is CIR the maker of Guillotine? (I realize that name has been nonexistent for a while.)

Has anybody bought one of the Neumade 35SS splicers lately? How much do they cost?

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Gordon McLeod
Film God

Posts: 9532
From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 04-15-2000 05:20 PM

Guillotine was a distributor for CIR

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Bruce McGee
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1776
From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular.
Registered: Aug 1999

posted 04-15-2000 11:07 PM

OK guys! You brought it up, again.

What the hell is wrong with a Marble splicer? I have one, and it makes decent splices...Not like a Neumade, but, guys, I did not pay $300 for it either!

Bought it used for $50.

I WOULD like to purchase a pair of blades for the thing... should I just flush it down the toilet?

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Brad Miller
Administrator

Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 04-15-2000 11:46 PM

It's just us "perfectionist projectionists" at work again.

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