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Author Topic: Home-made Lamp Terminator - Problems!! Ben Wales Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 602 From: Southampton. England Registered: Jul 99 posted 12-04-2009 03:10 PM                     Several weeks ago I was having a clear out at a Cinema I cover as Projectionist and had the Pleasure to dispose of 25 old Xenon Lamps that were lying about every where. All I simply did was to place 4 at a time in their sleeves and placed in a old Film Transit Box and threw against a wall in the Bolier House and after I extracted all the Tungsten metal and when the Scrap price rises again will be down the scrap yard as it must be over 5kg I have now .  |  IP: Logged Eric Robinson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 538 From: Santa Rosa, CA Registered: Jan 2005 posted 12-04-2009 10:23 PM                     quote: Monte L Fullmer It's more fun throwing them down (in the taped up box) the stairs just behind that cinema's booth clown when he's heading downstairs an see how high they can jump when it explodes behind them Now THATS funny  |  IP: Logged Ed Alvarado Film Handler Posts: 60 From: Fort Worth, TX,usa Registered: Oct 2004 posted 12-10-2009 06:06 AM                        that looks like a cool item to have but it takes the fun out of destroying the bulbs.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-10-2009 07:32 AM                        quote: Richard Hamilton The tungsten was never recovered So does the Will Rogers org collect tungsten now the way they used to collect copper drippings? In the one booth still running carbons, I collect the copper just out of habbit. Maybe one day I will ship that box of drippings to Will Rogers Institute to see if any of them up there even know that they used to collect that stuff by the tons.  |  IP: Logged Paul J. Neuhaus Expert Film Handler Posts: 126 From: Iraq.. Again! Registered: Jun 2005 posted 12-14-2009 12:32 PM                     Michael, I'm no artist but that looks like an angry third grader got a new box of crayons!!  |  IP: Logged

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