Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Why You Should Change Your Oil Often......

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 12-16-2002, 08:53 PM:

No Flm-Techers the one on the left is not a fresh Bud, and the one on the right is not Coca Cola. This is a prime example of a once a year service customers oil. Yuck! It even was starting to turn ransid too!

Some people are just too cheap to do at least twice yearly servicing...yet alone change their own oil at least every 500 hours or 90 days as they should be doing. These mechanisms won't last the lifetime that most X-L's do as a result of this sort of maintainance...and then they bark when a bearing or movement fails...
Mark @ CLACO

Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 12-16-2002, 09:42 PM:

Mark, the one on the left sure looks like it... [Big Grin]

But seriously, the oil should be changed as recommended. Jack can tell you what his PRO-35's looked like in one of his theatres he just reciently acquired. In fact, he did somewhere in the forums.

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 12-16-2002, 10:12 PM:

Those pictures should really be posted under the ground level coconut/canole pooping oil [puke]

I always change oil after a rebuild as 50 hr then 10hr, 500hr, then there-after every 1000hrs

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 12-16-2002, 11:41 PM:

Hi Paul,
The one on the left is new(fresh)Simplex oil right out of the can. The right one is 1 year old Simplex oil just out of the projector. Perhaps I should research and find a good synthetic oil for these guys!
Mark

Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 12-16-2002, 11:49 PM:

Cow hum it's got bubbles? [Big Grin]

Posted by Jack Ondracek (Member # 1466) on 12-17-2002, 12:28 AM:

quote:
from Paul...
Jack can tell you what his PRO-35's looked like in one of his theatres he just reciently acquired. In fact, he did somewhere in the forums.

No kidding. I've got 6 gallons of the stuff on the right... all from only 4 machines, lovingly cared for by a "royal" theatre chain. [Wink]

Undoubtedly, this is part of why I'm now installing new machines. [Mad]

Considering the cost of oil, and the relative simplicity involved in changing it in most mechanisms, there is no excuse for not managing at least one change a year.

Oh... btw... do you think the chains that put up with the oil on the right will be on the forefront when it comes to maintaining their new 200k+$ digital systems? How many of them will be at the front of the line when a DLP chip loses control of a pixel here and there? If they can't manage a 2$ oil change... boy... I can hardly wait! [Big Grin]

Posted by Jack Ondracek (Member # 1466) on 12-17-2002, 12:38 AM:

quote:
from Paul again... Cow hum it's got bubbles?

Well... Mark may have been right. It probably wasn't a fresh Bud... it actually looks more like a Miller! [beer]

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 12-17-2002, 08:32 AM:

Can't explain why Simplex oil is bubbly to some extent. Start up a fresh batch of oil and look see in the sight glass and you'll see the tiny bubbles.
Mark

Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 12-17-2002, 08:56 AM:

Hmmmmmmm that's funny. The simplex oil that I have is a lot clearer than the one on the left. The one on the lefts color is what it looks like when I take it out of the machine.