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Author Topic: Clint Phare cue markers John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 11-15-2002 10:48 AM                     Cost advantage? I think most of the cost is machining time, but white delrin is almost twice as expensive as 6061 aluminum (by volume). At this point I'm not really interested in changing the design, but I would worry that there would be annoying issues with a scriber that was hard enough to scribe the film but not damage the die. Deburring is certainly an issue. I think the photo makes it look more burred than it really is, but I did file and deburr edges, and test them against some film... --jhawk  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-12-2002 01:49 PM                     Sorry for the delay, things have been a bit busy here. Joe Beres asked for an update. I decided to spend a while doing "fancy stuff" like anodizing and lettering. I'm pretty much all set on the 35mm version. this one had a slight error in that the front-side lip got milled down too far. Not a real functional problem, just a cosmetic one. I also started work on 16mm one. This was my first try and didn't come out so well. Aside from the obvious milling error ("Why is that chunk missing?!" ), the hole positions didn't come out quite right. Still, the idea of having the holes adjacent rather than alternating seems to've been fine. One thing I've learned from this is that I'm not particularly good at taking pictures of objects like this...sorry for the flash flare. --jhawk  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 12-12-2002 02:20 PM                     John Very Nice Bill  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-12-2002 03:21 PM                     Those look real nice! You probably don't need 8 cue holes on the 16mm. Again, nice job. Steve PS...where is the green 70mm version.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 12-12-2002 04:05 PM                        Putting more than four holes would just encourage a needlessly long (and distracting) cue on the screen. I personally feel four frames (1/6 second) is overkill (although that's what's in the SMPTE standard).  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-12-2002 04:37 PM                     Oh, sorry, I should expand more on the "experimental" nature of the 16mm one. I wasn't really intending that the finished product would have 8 holes. But since the original Clint Phares have 4 holes, one every-other frame, I decided to build one that supported adjacent holes as well as alternating holes, and see how it worked... I imagine I'll just end up with 4 holes at the top and dead space at the bottom... --jhawk p.s.: I don't have any green anodizing dye...70mm is "later."  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-12-2002 11:24 PM                       John, a VERY nice piece of work there! Wonderful!  |  IP: Logged Joe Beres Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 606 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 12-13-2002 09:18 AM                     John, I must admit that I expected good work on these, but from the looks of it, you have outdone yourself! I can't wait to try one out.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-13-2002 09:50 AM                        The samples look great, John!  |  IP: Logged

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