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Darryl Spicer
Film God

Posts: 3250
From: Lexington, KY, USA
Registered: Dec 2000

posted 04-28-2008 11:49 AM

quote: Chris Slycord
You seem to not care that you only replace your bulbs when the image is too black to see an image. So while your boss sucks... you seem to be helping him along quite well.

Maybe, maybe not. If his boss is to cheap to buy an exhaust fan and is stupid about the water he is probably not in any hurry to keep bulbs on hand.

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Jonathan Bodge
Film Handler

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From: East Dorset, VT
Registered: Nov 2006

posted 04-28-2008 12:56 PM

I would suggest to tell your boss that he can make more money by opening a pizza/theatre. Just put some pop'n fresh on top of the lamphouse. Spray Pam first. Call it Christie Crust. I believe for a 4k it's 200 degrees in back of the unused stack and 350 degrees in front. The pizza oven savings alone is well worth the risk of damaging the equipment.

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Brad Miller
Administrator

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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 04-28-2008 01:30 PM

quote: Danial Simmonds
My principal of working with Christie console is that no exhaust fan then you cant show a movie

The exhaust airflow switch can easily be bypassed with a jumper wire, thus permitting the lamp to run without any form of exhaust.

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Frank Angel
Film God

Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 04-28-2008 02:05 PM

quote:
Exaust fan. How important?

Would your boss run his car without coolant? Well, HE probably would.

quote:
we only replace bulbs if ...The screen is so black that nobody will be able to sit through the show.

WOW! What a classy establishment your looser boss is running there. You know what, after you print this out and yellow highlight Joe's most excellent, precision ASSessment of your looser boss (and let me add that his inch pecker and pea size nuts no doubt sit under one huge, hairy pot belly so he probably has no idea that he's an inch away from being one, fat ugly eunic as he probably hasn't seen his own junk for decades), you can add from me that instead of worrying about how much a water circulator or a new bulb replacement will cost, he should do the exhibition world a big favor and close down his rathole of a theatre and go into some other line of busness, prefereably where concern for the customer is not an issue.

The likes of his kind of operation are what makes people want to stay home and watch movies in their home theatres, which certainly will be run much better than his.

Derrick, next time you get a chance, put a bar of Exlax in a Hershey wrapper and leave it on this looser's desk.

Edited so as to mute any overly harsh criticism.

[ 04-28-2008, 09:24 PM: Message edited by: Frank Angel ]

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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays

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From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 04-28-2008 04:53 PM

quote: Mark Gulbrandsen
Tim, You can't use that dayton blower in the SLC series consoles...

Ummm, I think when I said, "depending on what flavor of Christie console you have" sort of encompassed that. I know all about the upgrade kit for the SLC plenum blower. Besides, there are additional blowers in some SLCs that ARE 4C446's.

I wish the hell you would stop trying to qualify everything I say.

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Richard Fowler
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From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
Registered: Jun 2001

posted 04-28-2008 06:57 PM

Some of the Dayton blowers have converted from sleeve to ball bearing while keeping the original "4C" number....since they are being sourced to China, they can now afford ball bearings [Big Grin]

Still prefer EBM-Papst [Cool]

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Mark Gulbrandsen
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From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 04-28-2008 07:58 PM

quote: Tim Reed
Ummm, I think when I said, "depending on what flavor of Christie console you have" sort of encompassed that. I know all about the upgrade kit for the SLC plenum blower. Besides, there are additional blowers in some SLCs that ARE 4C446's.

I wish the hell you would stop trying to qualify everything I say.

I'm hardly qualifying everything you say and I don't know why you would feel that way... I guess had you been a little more specific in the first place I wouldn't have stepped in. I wouldn't want some guy reading this thread to think he can run out and buy a Dayton 4C flavored blower for the main plenum on an SLC. Flavors don't count technically... the facts do. ALOT of people read these forums and I want them to get as correct of information as is possible. Just please be more specific about things like this... thats all, and I don't think thats really asking for much.

Richard,
I know of very few manufacturers using any Dayton stuff any longer. Oiless motors from them have come without oil holes now for at least several years. The large Dayton squirrel cage blowers we all have used for many years have Chineese motors with little steel in them and as little copper as they can get away with... and they have a huge temperature rise on them and many, many motors have failed. A client of ours just replaced 4 out of 6 Dayton motors on exhaust blowers for a 6 plex thats been open less than a year! Ask any motor shop... decent motors are now a thing of the past.

Mark

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Louis Bornwasser
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From: prospect ky usa
Registered: Mar 2005

posted 04-28-2008 08:41 PM

What are the odds that this dimwit owner actully has an SLC? Do we know for sure we're not dealing,with a vertical Christie or some other really worthless lamphouse?? Louis

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Mark Gulbrandsen
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From: Music City
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posted 04-28-2008 09:15 PM

Good point Louis, However many of those old lamphouses also had dichroic mirrors in them... I think the main point here is that his boss doesn't even try in the least to be professional about what he does.

Mark

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Monte L Fullmer
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From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 2004

posted 04-28-2008 11:46 PM

Yea, sounds like a boss that I used to know who won't even let their theatres have leaders .. they use old trailers and cut them down for leaders.. Thus, the concept of 'lacing in frame' was non-existent.

No exhaust on a SLC-40?? How terribly insane .. why is that guy in business in the first place?

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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays

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From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 04-29-2008 10:06 AM

quote: Louis Bornwasser
What are the odds that this dimwit owner actully has an SLC?

If the owner/lessee is who I think it is, there's no way.

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Gordon McLeod
Film God

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From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 04-29-2008 03:16 PM

We have been using a lot of Fasco and AO Smith motors and blowers lately

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Mark Gulbrandsen
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From: Music City
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posted 04-29-2008 04:01 PM

We've had pretty good luck with FASCO but their replacement line is alot mroe limited than Daytos is.

Re: SLC or not..As far as the mirror goes the make and model are irrelevant. Dicro or not the reflector can still burn.

Mark

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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 04-29-2008 08:09 PM

It was requested I post this. In my opinion it isn't enough CFM for the job, but I guess anything is better than nothing.

Inline fan

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James Westbrook
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa
Registered: Mar 2006

posted 04-30-2008 12:30 AM

CFM makes bigger ones than pictured. I am using a few of these on my Rentecs.

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