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Author Topic: Best Platter Available Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 01-26-2014 09:10 PM                        Sam; it was to be a conversion on National Amusement AW3s. Sticking point was payment from Christie when they were to put it on new ones. Never developed, but did lab mockups; no need for wrap detector. Customer was headed toward 30 plexes with one or no operator. (Other features, too, but simplified here..) Louis  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-27-2014 08:20 AM                     Our BIG SKY has been running for 7 years without a single problem.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-27-2014 04:13 PM                     quote: Louis Bornwasser We had looked at the AW3 and found it really good, but electrically complicated. Thats the first time I've ever heard anyone ever say that. I always thought it to be a very uncomplicated and simple platter comnpared to even a SPECO, especially to a Big Skie or Xetron... Mark  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 01-27-2014 07:44 PM                       The AW3 is only complicated if you don't understand electricity. What was complicated and wrong were the original speed setup instructions. This in large part was why it had the potential to throw a print. The wheel/shutter device that covers the solar cell is mechanically kind of dumb on the take up end but otherwise very good. Now don't laugh, but the AW2 (after the neon bulb version) had a better operating principle than the AW3. Each platter had totally independent speed controls for each feed and take up. The gear driven motors could apply immediate braking which the AW3 could not. The motors of course went through brushes and commutators for that matter. The mechanical parts, ie., rollers and decks were of course a bad joke. Crude but effective.  |  IP: Logged

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