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Author Topic: Filmguard - The Un-authorized Uses Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 08-18-2003 07:34 PM                     Does anyone know what happens when you take film-guard internally?? Once I put too much FG on a cleaner and as I was mounting the cleaner, a few drops landed in my mouth. A couple of hours later I started feeling bad, I don't know if it was related. In the Christie projector review Brad says that FG makes a good belt dressing.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 08-19-2003 01:07 AM                  I sincerely doubt a few drops would do anything. You probably take in more crap in the air just by breathing on a daily basis... The alleged relationship sounds psychosomatic.... >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 08-19-2003 11:45 AM                     If your supplier doesn't have a MSDS for FilmGuard, I think you can email a request to Brad.  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 08-19-2003 12:20 PM                     With all of these new uses, I think its time for Brad to hire Billy Mays for an infomercial. More on Billy Mays  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-19-2003 01:45 PM                     I kind of agree with Phil. We probably breathe in more toxic garbage driving down the freeway than FG can give you. On the other hand FG will make you sick if you take it internally. (Unless you have built up tolerance to it like Bruce! ) You MAY have gotten enough to make you sick. I don't know for sure. I'm just guessing. On the other hand, if you got better after a while I don't think you have anything to worry about. Even if you went to the emergency room right when it happened, they probably would have told you to go home and rest and come back if you don't get better in a few hours. I doubt there would be ANY lasting effects unless you drank a whole lot of the stuff.  |  IP: Logged Sam Hunter Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 779 From: West Monroe, LA, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 08-19-2003 04:29 PM                     Somebody already mentioned this but I will add that I tried the stuff on a couple of idlers off my Pentron tape recorder and it actually softened them up a little. Last I checked they haven't melted yet. FYPH  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 08-19-2003 07:51 PM                        quote: ...I tried the stuff on a couple of idlers off my Pentron tape recorder and it actually softened them up a little. Sam, back when I was a kid, there was a "rubber rejuvinator" out there, which we used to clean & soften up capstan pinch rollers in cart and reel to reel machines. The stuff turned out to be nothing but Naptha.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 08-21-2003 03:45 AM                        Chris, drink some more. If you get sick again, you'll know the cause.  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 08-21-2003 05:37 PM                     Ok, I'll drink the rest of the bottle tonight with my dinner. I didn't get sick really, I jsut started feeling bad, upset stomach dizzy. I didn't think it was the FG.  |  IP: Logged John Lasher Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Newark, DE Registered: Aug 2001 posted 09-29-2003 11:26 PM                        Bought my first bottle, came today (my birthday, yay!). quote: use it on scratched DVDs<rental> and CDs. Just wipe on a very very small amount, like the amount you use on film, and most of the time any skipping problems with the disc will be gone. I tried this tonight on a DVD that came from Netflix (I had already sent back another DVD of this (which was defective) they sent back one that looked like someone left it on a coffee table and used it as a coaster, now the disc won't play at all. Did I not do it right, Dan? (If anyone from Netflix is reading this, I will replace the DVD if necessary.)  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 09-30-2003 12:22 AM                     Ask Adam Martin what he did. He has had success with it. I've never tried it myself. My guess is you put too much on.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 09-30-2003 12:27 AM                     You end up having to polish most of it off because it will bead up on the disc. Leave very little on the surface of the disc. It's one of those "keep trying until you figure out how it works best with your player" sort of things. If the scratches are too bad, it won't help at all. It does, however, work wonders cleaning the disc ... apply with a KimWipe and polish with another dry one. I don't worry about the "wipe from the center to the edge" business when using FilmGuard. Maybe try to apply a coat, polish, reapply and polish again.  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 09-30-2003 07:31 AM                     I hawked the virtues of downing FG all that time that my previous image was here, and nobody believed me! See what FG guzzling can do to a young man? I see some new images for FT members here. You must be drinking the bottles, too. I cleaned a certain 12 reeler about 10 weeks ago with FG and ran it. I ran it again last night (on the same system/theatre) and didn't do anything other than splicing the heads and tails together again. Platter. Theatre owner, again, commented on how quietly the film ran, and there are no black scratches in the image. I sat in the theatre for most of it. So fun being a patron now and then!  |  IP: Logged John Lasher Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Newark, DE Registered: Aug 2001 posted 10-02-2003 01:10 PM                        I tried it with another disc (which was given to me, used, as a gift) it had one semi-major scratch which had rendered 5 minutes of the film unplayable. I put some FG on an old T-shirt, applied. It beaded up just like Adam said, I rubbed vigorously with a dry part of the shirt, whe finished I couldn't see the scratch anymore, i popped it into the DVD player, used the chapter menu to skip ahead to the scene. It played perfectly. So I tried it again with the rental DVD, it still doesn't work. My guesses are. a) It's a cheap DVD. (some label I'd never heard of before) b)... wait a minute, that's it.  |  IP: Logged Steven Privett Expert Film Handler Posts: 208 From: Pasadena, TX, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 10-02-2003 02:00 PM                    [ 10-03-2003, 03:08 PM: Message edited by: Steven Privett ]  |  IP: Logged

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