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Author Topic: Schultz Arc Carbons William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-26-2003 03:38 AM                        Sandie wrote that Jack Roe doesn't have the 11mm x 17 1/2" carbons we need - closest is 9mm. Cinema Equipment has Double Eagles in 11mm x 20". http://www.cinemaequip.com/viewall.cfm?categoryid=180&CFID=3016197&CFTOKEN=47275197# Has anyone cut down carbons easily?  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 09-26-2003 07:04 AM                     Yes, only 7mm ones, but they were easy enough. Tried a hacksaw first, rather messy, and the teath tend to clog. I found the best way was to make a nick on one side, hold them down firmly on a sharp-edged table with the nick on top, and level with the table edge, and they break quite cleanly with a sharp blow. you need to hold the carbon down close to the break point, to prevent it bending, and possibly breaking internally at some other point.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 09-26-2003 07:33 AM                        If you cut carbons (scoring and snapping the brittle carbon usually works well), consider using a drill to create a "crater" on the positive, or sanding a point on the negative. For copper-clad carbons, consider using a pipe cutter to cut through the copper and score the carbon: http://www.plumbingsupply.com/coppercuttercleaner.html http://www.plumbingsupply.com/reedtools.html  |  IP: Logged Lindsay Morris Expert Film Handler Posts: 233 From: Darlington, WA, Australia Registered: Sep 2002 posted 10-03-2003 05:11 AM                     FWIW I have been getting supplies of Sunny Carbons for the last 3 seasons from Carbon Imports, Christchurch New Zealand. I have only required 6 & 7mm carbons but they also stock 7 & 8mm sizes and possibly others if they are still being made by Sunny Carbons in Japan. The Sunny's are now made by Daiichi Carbon Co Ltd Japan and since I switched to those I could not discern any difference between them and Double Eagle/Marble carbons which I used to source locally until supplies dried up. (I suspect that the supplier was up to their old tricks of forcing exhibitors to use Xenon lamps rather than carbons!!) Since I discovered the NZ company I have been very happy with the rapid supply via the postal system with virtually NO breakages. Screen light was same as Double Eagle, slightly less consumption and if I mixed up a few carbons could not really tell what was on the screen without looking at the branding on the carbon. They were always well packaged and padded so travelled very well thru the post. Best of all the cost was less than what I was paying for Double Eagle brand. The contact there is Mark Strong on email, strongy@xtra.co.nz. Suggest anyone who needs carbons to drop him an email and see what he can find for you. My last consignment from them was 10 boxes of carbons and although it weighed a bit travelled OK. Lindsay PS, As to shortening carbons I have only ever snapped them cleanly by holding them with both hands and using the thumbs as a fulcrum and snapping the bit off I did not need or use. It is quite easy to reform the crater of a new tip created by snapping carbons by just striking the lamp on reduced current (as normal) and let it burn for a few moments longer while the new crater "forms". Once the crater is there go up to full current and you are away. No soot, no fuss, no splatter on the mirror etc. An old hand that taught me always made the point that IF you ever dropped a carbon it only ever went into the bin or the slide arc. Being brittle things almost always a small crack would be created and the carbon would fail when the tip dropped off as the copper melted and ALWAYS it would be when you least expected it... like a reel change.  |  IP: Logged Robert Throop Master Film Handler Posts: 412 From: Vernon, NY USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-03-2003 12:20 PM                     At the Stanley in Utica, NY we're using 11mmx20" carbons with Core Lite 135 lamps (working distance=29 1/2") and XL projectors. It is close and if the carbon is too far back the shutter will cut the end off for you. I don't think you could use 20" carbons with Century projectors because of the shutter.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 10-03-2003 01:17 PM                     There's a 'Stanley', no longer used as a cinema, in Jersey City. It's not a name I've ever seen over here. Who, or what, are they named after?  |  IP: Logged Robert Throop Master Film Handler Posts: 412 From: Vernon, NY USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-03-2003 02:49 PM                     The original "Stanley" was Stanley Mastbaum who had a chain of theatres called the Stanley Corporation of America. They were taken over by Warner Bros. in the late twenties. This later became Stanley Warner theatres.  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-06-2003 01:20 AM                        Isn't it the Stanley in Utica which still has in the orchestra pit some kind of annunciator for the conductor to communicate to the projectionist desired changes in film speed? I'd like to see photos of the Utica Stanley sometime! The Jersey City Stanley is in *very* nice condition, although no longer a film venue. The Jehovah's Witnesses operate it now as a Meeting Hall, & have done a lot of restoration & some very nice, appropriate renovations such as carpeting, etc. The neccesary improvements in general lighting in the auditorium, though, could have been spec'd as something a little less, umm, institutional in color/coverage. They also did an addition to the building which from the outside plainly was the painstaking & successful to look original. I wish some of the folks who run PAC's had as much taste & regard for their buildings. Some of them don't know they're selling looks & functionality.  |  IP: Logged Robert Throop Master Film Handler Posts: 412 From: Vernon, NY USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-07-2003 09:53 AM                     There is a conductor's console on display in the lobby which has a speedometer display for film speed. I don't know if it was ever used since the Stanley opened in September 1928 and was equipped for sound from day one.  |  IP: Logged

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