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Author Topic: The best 35mm projector Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-17-2007 05:13 PM                     Doesn't surprise me that W.E. had a hand in it and that explains the magnetic part. That part of it would have been way way over the heads of anyone at Century to build. Tim, Louis... have you ever had the stabilizer apart on one of those?  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-17-2007 06:42 PM                       YES! Little-bitty ball bearing on a needle-point axle holding up the whole works, and horseshoe magnets around the circumference on the inside of the cover!  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-17-2007 07:17 PM                     quote: YES! Little-bitty ball bearing on a needle-point axle holding up the whole works, and horseshoe magnets around the circumference on the inside of the cover! Can you imagine some US company trying to build that stabilizer today... Yikes!  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 07-18-2007 01:46 AM                     nah, they'd let the Chinese manufacture something like that for us since it's cheaper that way ... let alone they're getting so industrialzed..  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 07-18-2007 12:25 PM                        Remember the concept of cannibalization; works great. Louis  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-18-2007 05:16 PM                     Cannibilazation is great when there are abundent pulls to split up but there were not that many of these sound heads to begin with, like the occasional W.E TA-7400 reverse scan sound head you see here and there. Thay musta been expensive suckers.... Mark  |  IP: Logged Bastiaan Fleerkate Film Handler Posts: 85 From: Linschoten, Utrecht, The Netherlands Registered: Jun 2006 posted 07-20-2007 02:31 PM                        I don't know if this is already said... (I am lazy , I don't want to read all of the posts ) I think the first thing you must take into mind, is the availability of the spare parts in your country or surrounding country's... Iceland is special in this case... Nothing is more frustrating then waiting for a part that isn't available with your supplier. I personally like the Kinoton FP30E... nice steady picture with German precision and reliability...  |  IP: Logged Jeffry L. Johnson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 809 From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 07-20-2007 09:13 PM                        Christie CineX35 quote: Standard analog visible red LED soundhead with Davis Loop design, which is driven by single sprocket to eliminate possible speed variations and reduce possible film tension Dolby Cat. No. 702 quote: To ensure smooth film motion, it uses an easily threaded Davis tight-loop configuration with twin tension arms.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-21-2007 08:04 AM                     The Cine-X35 is a really good projector but does seem awkward to thread... And they are still making it Steve! We have basement readers on all of them and the error rates are now as good as a penthouse reader... 0's and 1's! Belts in them also last for years... not just a year as in the P35GP. Six more going in the end of August. Mark  |  IP: Logged Alan Gouger Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 501 From: Bradenton, FL, USA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 07-21-2007 11:51 AM                        Why cant someone make a penthouse reader for analog sound. Would the sound drum stabilization to keep wow and flutter at a minimal be the problem. As far as delay there are plenty of outboard delay options on the market. For guys with older projectors I would think there would be a market for this.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-21-2007 12:31 PM                     actually the BACP reader has been used on the mega machines like that but the best is the sondor http://www.sondor.ch/soundhouse.html  |  IP: Logged Tristan Lane Master Film Handler Posts: 444 From: Nampa, Idaho Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-21-2007 01:18 PM                     Christie has discontinued the X-35, unfortunately. All efforts are being focused on improving the P35 instead. Most of the improvements that made the X-35 work so well have been incorporated into the P35GPS. All but the Davis loop soundhead. The addition of the round tooth belts, horizontal changeover assembly, and other small changes have made the P35 a much better projector. I'm told (but have not seen) that SRD basement readers perform really well on the P35 since the addition of round tooth belts. I'm not sure if Christie intended the X-35 to replace the P35, or just compliment the product line, but it is no more. Christie is offering the round tooth belt and new changeover douser as upgrades to older P35 projectors.  |  IP: Logged Alan Gouger Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 501 From: Bradenton, FL, USA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 07-21-2007 01:27 PM                        Thanks Gordon. Just what the doctor ordered:)  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-21-2007 01:27 PM                     Perhaps we're getting the last 6 of them... too bad,it was a better machine. Also the round tooth beltkits for the P35 are not available as of yet.... On another penthouse note... we will soon have in stock Sony DFP-3000 penthouse sprockets... HArdened steel and VKF teeth, made by LaVezzi! They will cost LESS than the OEM sprocket that Sony still can't supply Mark  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 07-21-2007 02:39 PM                        SDDS: why? Louis  |  IP: Logged

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