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Author Topic: Constantly loose pad roller on 5-Star. Why? Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 05-17-2004 08:31 AM                    Ah, a Mark's Favourites list. How delightful! (Please hear this in Stanley Holloway's "Titfield Thunderbolt" voice.)  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-17-2004 07:49 PM                     Also in Stanley Holloways "Titfield Thunderbolt" voice..... "We should drink a toast to that....Another round for everyone bartender...." Mark  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 05-17-2004 10:07 PM                     oops...double post on an edit. Sorry.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 05-17-2004 10:08 PM                     Uncle Rube? Kinda funny, Mark. But when I was 16, we had a TV tech by the name of "Uncle Rube." His last name was Kubitchka.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-17-2004 10:32 PM                     "His last name was Kubitchka." Hey Paul, That sounds like a good Bohemian name that you would typically encounter in Manitowoc!! Mark  |  IP: Logged Josh Jones Redhat Posts: 1207 From: Plano, TX Registered: Apr 2000 posted 05-20-2004 02:41 AM                        Ah, it must be bitch about simplex day, how delightful The 5-star is the worst (modern) soundhead made. They SUCK, plain and simple. Why in the hell must we have two unecessary rollers to slow down threading time? I can whip through an SH-1000 in half the time it takes to thread these dreadful concoctions of potmetal torture. The pad roller stops are, well, non existant. the older machines had a screw, thats right, a screw to adjust pad roller clearance. now we have a flimsy blade stuffed in a spring to try and stop the force of the arm? WHO THE HELL DID THAT!! These damn things love to break, especially on busy friday nights (happened two weeks ago as a matter of fact). Then there is the eccentric shaft that controls pad roller clearance. These especially love to loosen up, and no amount of locktite or superman jizz can keep these things tight. My boss actually removed the arm, drilled and tapped a second hole for another set screw and they still work loose. For the record, I now in addition to the single screen art cinema, work for a 10 plex, with simplex all around, crappy platters and all. Now, someone start a thread about strong platters so I can go over there and bitch too. have a nice day JJ  |  IP: Logged

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