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Author Topic: Upload your random pictures (part 4) Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-14-2015 06:57 PM                     The pedestals base are actually reversed from the way they should be sitting. If one fell over it would be no surprise! Mark  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 09-15-2015 09:51 AM                        I always liked those stands when doing temporary installs because they were a little easier to carry and move during setup and strike. They're still fairly heavy - I never felt they were lacking in stability. As for the ones in the picture, that's the way we usually put them in - with one leg facing forward. With the installations I did, the projector weighed more than the lamphouse, so having a stand leg under the projector seemed to be the way to go.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-15-2015 09:53 AM                        I suspect the stands are bolted to the platform.  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 09-15-2015 09:56 AM                     I saw quite a few of these recycling trash cans on one of my recent film festival excursions. Some bins were actually marked "Cans Only " and "Bottles Only " But, inside, it all goes into the same trash bag! (What made this funny to me is that I had stood and watched someone take a bag of cans and bottles out of his car and carefully stand there and sort through them to make sure each one went in the proper 'hole' ) D'oh!  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 09-15-2015 12:40 PM                     quote: Paul Mayer the projector weighed more than the lamphouse, so having a stand leg under the projector seemed to be the way to go. Maybe so, but every installation I can recall seeing and every old projection room photo I can find shows the 'leg' towards the rear. I don't think it's a matter of which end is heavier, (the projector or the lamphouse,) but where the 'center of gravity' is.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 09-16-2015 10:08 AM                        Of course! I implied that since I thought the projector weighed more than the lamphouse, the center of gravity would be toward the projector, hence placing one leg directly under the projector. But since all the installations you guys have seen with this type of stand have one leg pointed to the rear under the lamphouse, that must've been the intended way of installation. As I stated earlier, I've only done temporary installs using this kind of stand - guess I got lucky that none of them tipped during those shows.  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 09-17-2015 01:55 AM                         |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 09-17-2015 04:36 AM                     Yep, I make widescreen videos with my smartphone and show people that holding the phone sideways that you do capture a lot more info. With DCP-o-Matic, it comes in handy to make DCP content from your own phone.  |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 09-17-2015 06:15 AM                     quote: Jim Cassedy I don't think it's a matter of which end is heavier, (the projector or the lamphouse,) but where the 'center of gravity' is. I think the rake on the projector would affect the center of gravity. Thus either position for the pedestal would be correct given the particular circumstances.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 09-23-2015 08:19 PM                        From a 'clean up' day in 2014 at the Rialto Theatre in Pasadena, CA. Anyone care to ID the lamphouse sitting in the orchestra pit?  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-23-2015 08:58 PM                     Peerless Magnarc  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 09-23-2015 09:12 PM                        I thought it might have been a Magnarc but was thrown off by the lack of the glass backlit name badge along the top. I take it later Magnarcs didn't have that badge...  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-24-2015 01:08 PM                     Is the organ lift still there?  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 09-24-2015 02:10 PM                     My first reaction to the photo a few posts back was to say "Magnarc", but the more I looked at that lamphouse, the more I think it isn't. Aside from the lack of the usual glass name-plate on top, the ass-end is all wrong for the Magnarcs I can recall working with. The metal-work along the top is different too. Magnarcs had dowser handles on both the 'operating' and 'non-operating' sides of the lamphouse. The lamphouse in the center of the photo doesn't appear to have a dowser handle on its' non-operating side. Also, the doors on a Magnarc swung UP to open. The lamphouse in the picture clearly has hinges on the front which means the door swings open from the rear. The only place a Magnarc had a hinge assembly like that was in the rear, so that you could swing open the back-cover to change the negative carbon. All these things make me think that it's not a Magnarc. Close, but no cigar. (It's also making me think that I have entirely too much free time this week)  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 10-01-2015 11:18 AM                         |  IP: Logged

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