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Philip Jones
Film Handler

Posts: 90
From: England
Registered: Dec 2011

posted 03-15-2014 03:06 PM

Steve - I am in Bowness on holiday this Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday and am planning to visit the cinema. Will you be about at all?

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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster

Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 03-15-2014 06:18 PM

The Kalee's I owned didn't leak as badly as some of the old black Simplex's that were around. You never drained the Simplex's... you just kept them filled to the proper level. Kalee's had to be drained because they had a fine mesh oil filter that also had to be cleaned out.

Mark

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Steve Moore
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 211
From: Leeds, West Yorks, UK
Registered: Apr 2008

posted 03-16-2014 02:11 PM

I am going up from leeds on wed to service the servers and coolant levels in screens 2 and 3 on the digital machines on Wed am (there around 9.30) then off over to ulverston around lunch times; then back down via elland to sort an ethernet lead that intermittent..

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Dick Prather
Master Film Handler

Posts: 259
From: Portland, OR, USA
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 03-17-2014 03:43 PM

Peter, did not know about yours being sent. It was my complete GK-21, soundhead, and magazines were picked up by the folks at CE for the LED mod. Both analog and digital versions were made and were in their catalog. Bill stated it worked fine.
Dick

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Leo Enticknap
Film God

Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000

posted 03-17-2014 04:17 PM

Interesting. When I was working in UK cinemas, there were loads of GK37s around, but I never encountered a revenue-earning 21. I'm guessing that so many of them found their way to Australia because of import/export tax breaks that existed between Commonwealth countries throughout the period this model was in production.

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Sam D. Chavez
Film God

Posts: 2153
From: Martinez, CA USA
Registered: Aug 2003

posted 03-17-2014 07:13 PM

Peter, did your dad come to Seattle with the goal of buying CE?

I later had long phone calls with someone down under by the last name of Howard who was seeking info about building a red LED reader. Small world if you're his son.

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Jim Cassedy
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1661
From: San Francisco, CA
Registered: Dec 2006

posted 03-17-2014 09:06 PM

quote: Steve Moore
https://www.facebook.com/402310479876144/photos/a.433046070135918.1073741921.402310479876144/443321685775023/?type=1&theater

I wish people would stick to using the "Insert URL" button instead of posting
an incomprethensible 125 character link....

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Stephen Brown
Film Handler

Posts: 91
From: Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 03-18-2014 05:05 AM

quote: Leo Enticknap
Interesting. When I was working in UK cinemas, there were loads of GK37s around, but I never encountered a revenue-earning 21. I'm guessing that so many of them found their way to Australia because of import/export tax breaks that existed between Commonwealth countries throughout the period this model was in production.

The first machines I learned on were Kalee 21's here in Australia back in 1980. I will try and scan some of the pictures for here.

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Pete Naples
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1565
From: Dunfermline, Scotland
Registered: Feb 2001

posted 03-18-2014 05:26 AM

Leo, that's interesting!

In my 22 years in this game I've never seen a working GK37.

I served my time on GK19s, 20s & 21s and saw quite a few working for a living until very recently. Plus of course the omnipresent Westar 2001.

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Leo Enticknap
Film God

Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000

posted 03-18-2014 11:00 AM

A lot of the independent cinemas along the Devon and Cornwall coasts, which had somehow managed to survive both the multiplexes and VHS, were running 37s in the '90s, as did two university campus cinemas I was involved in (Exeter and East Anglia). Like the DP70, they had incredibly thick and heavy, cast iron pedestal and chassis components, which appeared to have been designed to withstand a direct hit from a Scud. To be honest they weren't my favourite machine: my main memories of them were that film path cleaning was fiddly and time-consuming, and the design of the gate was such that it was difficult to see whether you'd laced the film up in rack.

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Peter Howard
Film Handler

Posts: 44
From: Forster, NSW, Australia
Registered: Dec 2005

posted 03-19-2014 09:07 AM

quote: Dick Prather
Peter, did not know about yours being sent. It was my complete GK-21, soundhead, and magazines were picked up by the folks at CE for the LED mod. Both analog and digital versions were made and were in their catalog. Bill stated it worked fine.
Dick

Possibly my mistake Dick, I'm not 100% sure we sent over a complete unit (as it would have been quite unusual for my dad to give up a prized head!) and a small part of my brain does recall him saying that CE could source one locally. Sounds like that's your machine!

quote: Sam D. Chavez
Peter, did your dad come to Seattle with the goal of buying CE?

I later had long phone calls with someone down under by the last name of Howard who was seeking info about building a red LED reader. Small world if you're his son.

Dad never went over to Seattle as far as I know, but he spoke to CE about investing in them. It never came to pass.

It's awful likely that you spoke to my father Don, if you were speaking to an Aussie surname Howard into red LED readers. He's very proud of the innovations that he commissioned for the GK-21. [Smile]

He sold quite a few items to operators around the world, but a shame that we still have some parts stock that will never find a home.

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Jim Cassedy
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1661
From: San Francisco, CA
Registered: Dec 2006

posted 03-19-2014 10:40 AM

I'm curious:
Looking at the original "museum photo" of the projector-
It looks almost like the film compartment is hermetically sealed.
Is this one of those machines which had a built in CO-2 fire suppression system?

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Stephen Furley
Film God

Posts: 3059
From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
Registered: May 2002

posted 03-19-2014 11:50 AM

At least some of the 'Elephant foot' version of these machines, as seen in th picture did contain fire bottles; I've seen one pair which did.

The strangely shaped upper spoolbox was the same on the original Cintel flying spot telecine. Kalee and Cintel were both part of Rank at one time.

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Pete Naples
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1565
From: Dunfermline, Scotland
Registered: Feb 2001

posted 03-19-2014 12:12 PM

quote: Jim Cassedy
Is this one of those machines which had a built in CO-2 fire suppression system?

Pyrene?

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