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Author Topic: Neumade "Tape Holder Roller" -- $26.80?! Mike Perju Film Handler Posts: 90 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Nov 2002 posted 07-07-2004 11:36 PM                     It could be worse: a locking screw for a ARRI filter stage goes for over $80USD.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-07-2004 11:52 PM                     Mike, if you think thats bad a replacement outer eyepiece element was 290.00 way back in 1979 for my Arri S. Today you're lucky to be able tog et any parts out of Arri USA for the older stuff. You'll actually have better luck going directly to Arri Germany where they still proidly support just about all the equipment they've ever made. We can all thank God and Larry Shaw that Arri USA no longer distributes Kinoton!! Mark  |  IP: Logged Robert L. Fischer Expert Film Handler Posts: 145 From: Montreal, Quebec Registered: May 2004 posted 07-08-2004 03:06 AM                    Thomas, do you happen to know the specific size of that screw? I would just bring the splicer with me to the hardware store to find out, but I don't think I'd be allowed to take it out of the theater.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 07-08-2004 09:03 AM                        quote: Thomas Procyk I wouldn't be surprised if they started stocking exciter bulbs. Weren't exciter bulbs originally "borrowed" from the automobile industry, which needed heavy filament lamps designed to run on low voltage DC?  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 07-08-2004 07:18 PM                    I wouldn't be surprised if they started stocking exciter bulbs. You mean LED arrays?  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 07-08-2004 08:14 PM                        AFAIK, the technology that led to very high efficiency red LED arrays was also first developed for the automobile and signalling industries.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-08-2004 08:21 PM                       We've got LED brake, signal, and marker lights on our tractors and trailers. They're pretty doggone bright!  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-10-2004 10:43 AM                        Are we still going to call them exciters? White exciter lamps and Red exciter arrays? And how come they are reverse scanners? Wouldn't that make the old configuration Forward Scanners? So what exactly is the reader part of the system and what is the scanner part? Is the solar cell the reader and/or the scanner? So how come the old system wasn't called a white reader and/or scanner? And what have we decided to call the old redeveloped track? If we are calling the new non-redeveloped track a "cyan" track, shouldn't we call the old redeveloped track a "white" track or a "silver" track? The nomenclature around this soundhead business is murky at best. And as you can see, I don't have much to do while I am waiting for the coffee to brew.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-10-2004 11:34 AM                        In addition to Frank's questions, I'm curious about the difference between a "soundhead" and "sound reproducer." Everyone seems to refer to the item in question as a "soundhead," yet many manuals (Century, at least) refer to it as a "sound reproducer." Why? Which is correct? Also, the old SMPTE projectionist book makes a point of using the term "photographic sound record" to refer to what everyone else calls the "optical soundtrack." What's the difference?  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-10-2004 11:09 PM                       I usually call them reproducers, unless I'm in mixed company. Just the old-school term.  |  IP: Logged Paul Trimboli Master Film Handler Posts: 274 From: Perth Western Australia Registered: Dec 2002 posted 07-11-2004 08:00 AM                     I am pretty sure you would not call conventional soundhead scanning foward scan. It probably should not even be called Reverse scan, a better name is projected track and normal systems should be called projected slit. Everyone talk as if that reverse scan is something new, its an Australian invention that dates back to the 1930s and were made under the Raycophone brand and most cinemas in Australia were fitted with them, and there are some still running.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-11-2004 08:58 AM                     I beleive one of the original Klangfilm soundhead s was "reverse scan" from day one  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-11-2004 09:34 AM                     I prefer sound reproducer to sound head. A sound head might in reality be the magnetic "head" mounted on a sound reproducer. Phillips also used the projected reverse scan system since the 1930's. I would be more willing to bet that the reverse scan method, projected or not, is very much a European invention. The first true U.S. built reverse scan sound head was made by Western Electric in the later 1930's, the TA7400. It was a very unique sound head and used a 3450 rpm drive motor, it also had a fully field adjustable slit in both the horizontal and vertical directions. Many are in use today for archival work of old optical sound tracks. Mark  |  IP: Logged Robert L. Fischer Expert Film Handler Posts: 145 From: Montreal, Quebec Registered: May 2004 posted 07-13-2004 10:18 PM                    Well, good news: my boss didn't kill me. He didn't even seem to care too much. We haven't decided yet how to replace the part, but I don't think it's on the top of anyone's priority list seeing as how we have 2 other splicers and only 5 screens.  |  IP: Logged Tony Hall Film Handler Posts: 18 From: Saginaw, TX, United States Registered: Jun 2004 posted 07-21-2004 04:24 PM                     Tape Roller The tape Holder roller out of a Scotch tape dispenser That is what i have used in tight spots before when that piece has gotten lost. And when it dissapears no one really cares to much  |  IP: Logged

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