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Author Topic: Tips for Booth Operations Jarryd Beard Expert Film Handler Posts: 229 From: Hellertown, PA Registered: Jul 2004 posted 05-22-2007 08:09 PM                     As long as you rinse the platter pucks off every week or so, they should stick just fine. We used to use the cores with tape on one of our platters until we received stickapoos (on backorder from everyone's favorite supplier... CPI).  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-22-2007 09:25 PM                     Obviously the Film-Tech Platter Safety Rings are *the* ideal way to guarantee that your print will never get tossed, but for those stuck on poos, the MiT poos are the best.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-22-2007 09:29 PM                        Too bad the F-T rings don't fit on CFS Super Platters. If they did, I'd buy one immediately. Actually, I've never had any trouble with the usual tail-tuck method on the one Super Platter that I've had to deal with (which, fortunately, is in a single-screen house that rarely runs film). They are too cheap to invest in poos.  |  IP: Logged Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: California, U.S.A. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 05-23-2007 12:11 AM                     By design the CFS platter is a thing of beauty. It's such a simple, minimal design it's almost elegant. If not for the few el cheapo parts they'd be great systems. Not to be too much of an ass here, but Michael, you sound a bit more arrogant than I do most days. Any platter system is prone to erratic behavior for any given reason. Christies can sudden stop during build/break/run whatever from a shorted card (they just plain fail sometimes, you know). Other times a motor might short (excessive neglect, bad booth monkey!) or a part may be defective. Whatever the reason may be it will happen at some point. All I'm saying really is sometimes a tail will come loose. The loop-back method I employ doesn't seem to be prone to this. As those decks are sometimes uneven a tuck doesn't always stay and just sticking the tail keepers up against the tail doesn't work well if the keepers are old and in poor repair, whereas the loop will. Alright, enough of my soap box. Enjoy.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 05-23-2007 03:12 AM                     quote: This tells me something is wrong with the platter system or technician who timed it. I have never had a platter suddenly take off. If your platters take off for no reason I say this: (...lol...I'm just giving these things a hard time..but, can't stand these things-just something more to keep around when working with platters when that platter ring can stay put on the decks..or our good ol' tuck method does the job fine..) No, why I say that is not the sudden spinoff of the decks and throwing these pukbuddies, it's just that some decks will allow prints to shift some when they start to take off (like the forbidden STRONG and StupidPlatters...) and there using the pukbuddies has lost it's purpose... Sorry, just never used any fancy devices in securing the tail end down outside of our clothespin wraps or the tuck method... (I know, I'm a meanie sometimes...) -Monte  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-23-2007 08:21 AM                     quote: Brad Miller the MiT poos are the best. Awh... Come on Brad... call em by their real name... Bevan Poos  |  IP: Logged Michael Moore Expert Film Handler Posts: 188 From: Dover, DE / USA Registered: Jun 2006 posted 05-23-2007 10:10 PM                        Heres a way I drain oil from my intermittent movement. I came up with this when I was trying to figure out a way to drain the oil and not get it all over the place. I simply took a copper pipe (1/2 inch) cut it and bent it like you see in the photo. I then shaped the end so that it was flat enough to fit snuggly in between the movement body and the casting. works like a charm. I'm sure there is a better way to do this but it works for me. Mike  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 05-23-2007 11:08 PM                     That's an excellent tip in assembly drainings! Congrats on this and thx for sharing this with us! Could be an excellent tool to make when draining Century assemblies as well..plus also in doing those XL frame drains. Should add this to the 'tips' section. Monte  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 05-24-2007 12:03 PM                        I enjoy the old Teco pucks that said "Clean Rubber Pad Weekly" my friend who got hired up in the booth when I was 17 used to say he spent his time lazily cleaning the pucks, had to make sure they were cleaned weakly. He was also the same guy that used to carry a few of the old worn out ones around so he could hand them off and say "Here's a clean rubber pad, as needed." I never really did understand why they printed cleaning instructions on them. If yer too stupid to figure it out, you deserved a tail wrap.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-24-2007 01:26 PM                        I can't believe this thing has gotten to five pages without somebody screaming that it's a TEASER TOPIC. This whole site is "booth tips," for cryin' out loud.  |  IP: Logged Alex Grueneberg Expert Film Handler Posts: 125 From: Chicago, IL Registered: Aug 2004 posted 05-24-2007 05:25 PM                        THIS IS A TEASER TOPIC!  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-24-2007 05:57 PM                     Back in the day...When I ran Tai films for midnight shows...I got Tipped $20 each night by the guy who rented the theatre for the show.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 05-25-2007 03:42 AM                     (oh, I dunno on that, for the topic title does have a definite point title - an adjective and a noun - instead of a "guess what we can do", or "here's an idea for you all.." sort of title that makes us really guess....) But, if it has to be changed, a "Tips for Booth Operations" title would fit better.....  |  IP: Logged Michael Moore Expert Film Handler Posts: 188 From: Dover, DE / USA Registered: Jun 2006 posted 05-25-2007 05:38 AM                        It doesn’t teas me; however would this be a better title: "Things that we all can try and test out to increase overall efficiency, cleanliness, comradely, and moral in the projection booth" I kind of like that; it's strait to the point. Mike  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-25-2007 02:53 PM                     You need to increase your 'moral's?  |  IP: Logged

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