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Joe Schmidt
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 172
From: Billings, Montana, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 11-20-2003 03:41 AM

70MM Mag Century (Ampex) Reproduce Head Stack Question:

Approximately how much does a new one cost these days, and who makes them? I guess these head stacks are no longer made by Ampex, but is there any NewOldStock around? Many of us are familiar with the Century 70/35 mag penthouses containing Ampex head stacks.

This is a bit of a rhetorical question... I have just received news that Otari of Japan is closing for good Otari USA, so there are going to be some difficulties after a while in getting Otari parts for their professional reel-to-reel tape machines. These are very useful to those with large R2R tape libraries, I have two Otaris. While the heads offer long life and although today we do little new recordings into the format, the day might arrive when at least new reproduce heads are needed for 1/4 and 1/2" wide tape. What company might be able to produce equivalent heads? One wonders if when the time comes these will be available, but then there is the possibility of cannibalizing some old machines for parts.

Nortronics is still around and hopefully alive and well for a long time.

Thanks, guys!

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Gordon McLeod
Film God

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

posted 11-20-2003 11:40 PM

Electromag in california makes replacement head clusters to order

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Frank Angel
Film God

Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 11-23-2003 04:35 AM

Why not assume the heads will be difficult to get in the future and buy replacements now while Otari still has them? I know that Laserdiscs players are a thing of the past, but I have quite an extensive library of them and bought one of the last players available. It sits on a shelf awaiting the demise of my current player.

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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster

Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 11-23-2003 01:23 PM

We have a number of used but in very good shape TECCON 6 track heads, both wide track and narrow, at CLACO for the DP-70's. These can be adapted quite easily to the JJ.
BTW... Scott Sound in Burbank bought all of the remaining TECCON stock. They even have brand new Cinerama 7 track heads just in case you might need one.

As for the Otari thats easy...just go to..... http://www.jrfmagnetics.com

The more manhufacturers that discontinue making analog magnetic recorders the longer JRF will be around. Their heads are also far better then most factory originals. I bought new 2 track wide gap heads from them a few years back for a Studer A-80 that I had. The wide gap heads afford a couple more db of s/n ratio but are only common on European machines. Ther is another company in CA. called Flux Magnetics but they only specialize in Ampex and Studer heads. No relation to the Flux Capacitor though.... http://www.fluxmagnetics.com/

Mark @ CLACO

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