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Author Topic: RE: Valley Fair 9 pictures Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-16-2006 09:07 AM                     Dopn, Any part that has to come from Italy is super expensive. I've never had to replace any geats ina VIC-8 ot 10 Daryl but the one gear that may get replaced in a 20 year period is probably a wash out with the number of belts and gear boxes you feed into a Vic-5. Even the Voc-8's out here are running theor original gate plates..... that says someting for a hard chrome surface! This Vic-8 which did a 25 year stint at a theatre in SLC was then moved to the theatre in West Yellowstone where its been for the last 12 years. Mark  |  IP: Logged Demetris Thoupis Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1240 From: Aradippou, Larnaca, Cyprus Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-16-2006 10:11 AM                     Hey Mark, Have you ever given a V10 or 8 this angle??? Talk about an angle!!!! But still. We do give special attention to our projectors here in my country and we have customers running V4s and even V6s!! with quite good results. Ok I am not saying is the steadiest picture and all but a well maintained machine with will run forever. Especially the V4s. Thank God BACP made a Reverse Scan Reader for those! D  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-16-2006 11:33 AM                     Excuse me, but I had to laugh a little bit: on the pict that Mark posted of that V-8r booth with Xenex lamphouse and the Drive-In platter setup - the checklist posted on the lamphouse is "training" the booth clowns how to thread...correctly.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-16-2006 10:44 PM                     Lets see the two belts in the vic 5 cost no more from an industrial belt wholesaler than do the two belts needed for a century or simplex 5 star soundhead  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-17-2006 01:35 AM                     For 7 yrs, I worked at a 4 screener with Vic-5's, Xetron X-35 consoles, LP-270 platters and that crappy Cp55 sound that Cine was known for in the three houses, the one house had a Dolby CP-50 which help out considerably. ..and I agree also: the Vic-5, if well maintained is a very surdy machine. Just had to keep the oil up in the intermittent assembly and make sure that scanner drum shaft kept oiled. Then had to watch the belts from time to time and in those 7 yrs, I had two motor belts break on me and not the machine belt. Also, the Cine V5's and V8's are the easiest machines to lace up in a heartbeat. When the Christie 35 unit came out and I found out that they were belt driven, I wasn't too crazy about the Christie at the time, solely from my experiences with belt breakage in the V-5. But after seeing what advances were done with belt driven machines, I was proven wrong. Monte  |  IP: Logged Matt Fields Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 545 From: Ohio, United States Registered: Jun 2005 posted 01-17-2006 08:39 AM                     quote: Monte L Fullmer Also, the Cine V5's and V8's are the easiest machines to lace up in a heartbeat. I always felt that Century was the easiest to thread...Always took more time for me to make sure my loop sizes on the Vic 5 where right. Liked V5 better then the V4 though.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-17-2006 02:30 PM                     quote: Matt Fields loop sizes on the Vic 5 where right. Liked V5 better then the V4 though. ..I had a little trick that worked wonders with the loop sizes and that is not to worry on making the loop size right at the intermittent sprocket, but pull the film tight around that sprocket, then at the last holdback sprocket, pull the film tight across that sprocket, then back up a frame plus two sprocketholes-this got your loop coming out of the intermittent sprocket the right size every time. Had that one down to where I knew exactly how much film to back up before securing that film on the holdback sprocket. I could lace up a Cine so much faster this way - why I mentioned of being the easiest machines to lace up. thx-Monte  |  IP: Logged

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