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Author Topic: Film Tech Media Pads plastic coupling cores John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-22-2008 06:48 AM                     quote: Galen Murphy-Fahlgren That person was probably spying on me through a time machine, since I didn't invent it until about 2 weeks after that video was posted. Yes, I have my Delorean parked outside. Though I only put it on YouTube in June, I've had the EZ2RW in use since December 2007.  |  IP: Logged Rene Ferron Film Handler Posts: 52 From: New Brunswick, Canada Registered: Feb 2008 posted 09-25-2008 06:45 AM                     Update: After contacting the supplier, they noticed that i asked for FT pads but they send me Jack Roe pads. I was issued an RMA and i will get the FT media pads that i ordered. So all is good.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 09-25-2008 05:29 PM                        Is there anything that Jack Roe doesn't make an inferior duplicate of?  |  IP: Logged Galen Murphy-Fahlgren Master Film Handler Posts: 405 From: Canton, MI, USA Registered: Oct 2007 posted 09-25-2008 05:56 PM                     Potts platters?  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 09-25-2008 07:56 PM                     I use my Kelmar bench motor end with the 1/2" spindle to wind bulk media on those card board rolls, but the drill idea is pretty interesting though. No, Pott's Platters are not bad at all - being the incentive of the STRONG platters.. ...it was those air driven platters (forget the name of them) that really had it's moments in the mid 70's.  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 09-26-2008 01:52 PM                     Monte, IIRC Simplex made/marketed the air platters. What a dog. It made the Ballenswine/Wrong knockoff of the Potts look like an AW3 in comparison.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-26-2008 03:09 PM                     Actually the AirOMatic plater was made by Potts for Simplex  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 09-26-2008 08:39 PM                        FYI: Strong/Ballantyne and Potts are made in the same factory and are consequtive serial numbers since at least 1976. There was a short gap where Potts started another production, later called the Super Platter, then back to the original maker in Central Illinois. Louis  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 09-27-2008 12:39 AM                     We know that there still a few 'stupidplatters' still floating around in service, but any of these AirOmatic still in service anywhere? The only time I saw these air monsters was at a newly constructed twin in my home area in 1976 and it was quite something to see, and hear, these things operate. Every time that supply deck would get ready to take off, the "hair dryer" underneath would give out a pretty good gust of wind to where when the wind hits the turbine blades of the deck, it gave out a pretty decent whistle as if the deck was actually taking off like an engine of a jet airplane.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 09-27-2008 01:15 AM                        quote: Louis Bornwasser There was a short gap where Potts started another production, later called the Super Platter, then back to the original maker in Central Illinois. Louis, are you saying that the people responsible for this: are also responsible for this?  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-27-2008 04:00 AM                     Ah...the Super Platter...  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 09-27-2008 08:27 AM                        Yes: the air platter for Simplex/NTS; the Super Platter, the Christie AW1 & AW2, the SPECO platter, some early orc platters, the Alpha platters and the Strong platters were originally made in Urbana IL by Potts. ONLY the Kinoton and the AW3 were NOT Potts of the early platters. Later, production of many of these was moved to the present locations. Louis  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 09-27-2008 10:13 AM                       quote: Monte L Fullmer any of these AirOmatic still in service anywhere? Bengies Drive-In, Baltimore, still runs a SAM platter (Simplex Aero-Matic). D. Vogel actually LOVES them!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 09-27-2008 10:44 AM                        This explains the common suckage of early platters as well as the design that continues to linger like a dead skunk to this day (such as in the Strong).  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 09-27-2008 07:36 PM                     at least that orange ORC/Stupid model has larger rollers on the tower than the current STRONG varieties... yas think that STRONG should have picked up on that one.  |  IP: Logged

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