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Author Topic: Are Cinemeccanica's expensive machines? Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-25-2004 09:42 AM                     Yea, From Jack Roe. I replaced a DC drive motor on a tower just a couple of weeks ago and it came from them. Call Dave there....don't e-mail them!! It might be cheaper to buy an alognotron though. Mark @ CLACO  |  IP: Logged Robert Throop Master Film Handler Posts: 412 From: Vernon, NY USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-25-2004 11:14 AM                     National Theatre Supply did sell an "Americanized" version of the Bauer U2 in the early sixties. The machine was mounted on a Simplex LL-1 pedestal with a standard induction motor, belt driven takeup and Zipper changeover. I don't know how many were sold. I saw a pair in the Towne theatre in Rochester, NY. I understand that Gus Studebaker of NTS Detroit did the conversions.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 08-25-2004 02:22 PM                        quote: Robert Throop I saw a pair in the Towne theatre in Rochester, NY. Unfortunately, long gone. Was it a Jo-Mor theatre at the time? Maybe Bill Yantz would have more info?  |  IP: Logged Bill Langfield Master Film Handler Posts: 280 From: Prospect, NSW, Australia Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-25-2004 02:43 PM                        If anyone wants 4x Bauer U3's the joint five minutes walk from my home should them for sale very soon. The extention to the shopping centre is coming along nicely and they should have a 10 plex with Christies ready to roll in around six months. I might add, that I nursed thoses Bauer's back to good health for 3 years, so CLEARLY they are in very GOOD condition. OH hang on they fired me 12 months ago. Forget it, my babies could be stuffed by now.  |  IP: Logged Jamie Sanson Film Handler Posts: 33 From: Port Macquarie,NSW, Australia Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-25-2004 06:26 PM                     Hi Bill The answer to your quiz is you can buy Cinemeccanica's at K-Mart and Christies at Myer. But I love them both.  |  IP: Logged Paul Trimboli Master Film Handler Posts: 274 From: Perth Western Australia Registered: Dec 2002 posted 08-26-2004 07:20 AM                     Cinemeccanicas all the way! I have worked with 4 Vic 8s and they are fantastic, whats not to like! Bill any idea of the prices of the Bauers?  |  IP: Logged Bill Langfield Master Film Handler Posts: 280 From: Prospect, NSW, Australia Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-26-2004 10:56 AM                        James, I love them both TOO, but you got it the wrong way around in my opinion. (However my favourite is Centuries) I guess, you just work with what you have to work with and get on with it! Paul, I like Vic8's too. The GUO drive-in two minutes drive down the road has them, I applied for day shift there, but they never called back (Yeah I know thats an old one) Proberly because I was working for Hoyts just down then road at the time. (Everyone leaps away from you when say work/worked with Hoyts. WHY is that??) But getting a job at the drive-in would be cool, just two screens, not god damn 16 of them, with perhaps the same pay per hour, and afternoon/night shift only, get to sleep in. HOW cool would that be!! It might be boring as hell for all I know, but I in my mind it seems magical in some way.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 08-26-2004 01:28 PM                       Scott, there should be parts cabinets full of those adjustment rods at the old ex-GC's. Every lamp comes with a set, so they should have them coming out their ears. Don't know if you still know anyone there or not...  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-26-2004 01:56 PM                        Not anymore, Tim. I know we had a bunch of them at Burlington (only one at Chestnut Hill, though), but that was before I knew I needed one! Does anyone here work at an ex-GCC multiplex with Cinemeccanica lamphouses?  |  IP: Logged Tony Hall Film Handler Posts: 18 From: Saginaw, TX, United States Registered: Jun 2004 posted 08-26-2004 02:40 PM                     At my last theatre we made some of those adjustment rods out of copper pipe and just cut a notch in the ends.  |  IP: Logged Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 08-30-2004 06:32 PM                        I Agree, get a rod and cut two slots in the end. So much cheaper! Love Vic 5's, cracking image if treated well and your int sprocket is in tip top condition. Philips/Kinoton FP20/30/40 give an rock solid picture, but are a slower machine to lace than a vic5/8 in my opinion. Darren  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-30-2004 10:36 PM                     "Philips/Kinoton FP20/30/40 give an rock solid picture, but are a slower machine to lace than a vic5/8 in my opinion." Seems like the whole world is in a hurry! Mark @ CLACO  |  IP: Logged

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