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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 02-24-2002, 01:47 PM:
I'm going to be running a batch of these soon. If anyone here with DeVrys is intersted please contact me soon.
Thanks!
Mark @ New GTS
Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 02-24-2002, 02:21 PM:
Mark, it's a little early for April Fools. Why would someone with those machines be concerned about good sound...or good anything?
Posted by Gordon Bachlund (Member # 124) on 02-24-2002, 03:49 PM:
Steve, you may be misjudging the DeVrys. I don't know when Herman A. DeVry, Inc., of Chicago, folded, but I do know that a number of DeVrys are still in use. When a friend and I re-opened a closed single screen house in Lynwood, CA, back in 1973, we were obliged by financial constraints to put DeVrys in the stripped booth, and they put a good picture on the screen for us for many years. 
Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 02-24-2002, 05:15 PM:
Oh I know...I've run dailies with them! Not by choice mind you. What was on the screen was satisfactory but they were annoying to run. As soon as I had the chance I upgraded--if you want to call it that and I do--by putting in a couple of Super Simplexes and RCA's that were gathering dust. By present values it would be hard to imagine anyone wanting one when old Supers can be had for fifty bucks or less (if they don't just give it to you).
Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 02-24-2002, 07:20 PM:
Steve,
Its still the most popular film collectors machine! So why shouldn't it have decent sound as well?
Mark @ Home
Posted by Ken Layton (Member # 133) on 02-24-2002, 10:44 PM:
DeVry's are good machines. I'd also like to see them outfited with large reel arms and a place to mount a DTS time code reader and/or a Kelmar film cleaner.
Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 02-24-2002, 10:57 PM:
My main recollection of the DeVry's was that they would always shred any loop I cared to run. I never figured out how they knew it was a loop but they seemed to. And that was even threading the full path so the dummy sprocket wasn't an issue.
Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 02-25-2002, 12:22 AM:
I agree never could get a loop to run and they didn't like taped overlapped splices
Posted by Richard Fowler (Member # 893) on 02-25-2002, 12:47 AM:
The semi-portable has the film shedder clutch sprocket if not maintained, but the the delux model ( 2810? ) had all sprockets driven. The existing lens tube is very low fidelity ( O.K. for 1940's ). I did convert one with a Japanese laser and stereo cell with good results.
Richard Fowler
TVP-Theatre & Video Products Inc. www.tvpmiami.com