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Posted by Matthew Bailey (Member # 601) on 02-17-2004, 09:50 PM:

I just found photos of this taken at a drive in on an urban exploration site. It shows a 3 deck two tone green platter & a matching MUT next to it. On the MUT it reads Cine Wind, assuming that the platter & MUT were made by Cine Wind or someone else.
The drive in in which the photos were taken at is called the Hill Top. Anyone have anything on this brand of platter? I'll find the link to the photos again later.

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 02-17-2004, 11:07 PM:

Matthew,
WOW! I used to service that very platter at that very Drive In. Its like Deja Vu for me. Can you post a link to those photos? I think that D.I. is all gone now. It was located in Joliet, Illinois in a not so good part of town... It was also not far from Stateville Penn. Thats where the opening scenes of "The Blues Brothers" was filmed....... then not much of Joliet is a very safe place to be anyway.

As for the platter it was not very reliable and definately not a platter I'd want to run on a daily basis. Most of my calls there were platter related about one problem with it oe another. It was made by Rank Precision(?)Industries. I remember there being a cable controled potentiometer in it that sometimes went bad and or became noisy. The cable broke at least several times. For some reason or other we were able to get parts for it from a local dealer.

Mark @ CLACO

Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 02-17-2004, 11:52 PM:

Here is a link to a pic Mark

hilltop drive-in

Posted by Chris Greenwell (Member # 1660) on 02-18-2004, 02:03 AM:

woah! that platter color is loud!

Posted by Matthew Bailey (Member # 601) on 02-18-2004, 12:16 PM:

this site where I fond the photos were taken in April of last year.
This is the link to it. http://www.geocities.com/chucksphotospot/hill22.html

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 02-18-2004, 02:07 PM:

Like the EPRAD platter they also turned backwards
I believe the manufacturer was a company in LA called applied energy or something like that the engineer went on to work for christies early autowinds

Posted by Richard Fowler (Member # 893) on 02-18-2004, 03:41 PM:

Filbert Supply in L.A. where promoting these in addition with the "green" Rank lamphouses ( with L.P. associate parts )in the early 1970's.

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 02-18-2004, 05:50 PM:

We called them the "Green Slime" up here

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 02-18-2004, 07:56 PM:

Green Slime is sure a good name for that stuff. While that place brings back memories of service calls from long ago I can't say that ot brings back fond memories. Can't remember how many times I replaced both the control cable and speed control pot in that platter.... at least 3 times for sure.

Having to pass Stateville Prison gave one a wierd feeling about being in that part of Joliet.

Mark @ CLACO

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 02-18-2004, 09:43 PM:

Back when all the green slimes up here got pitched into lake ontario so that rank wouldn't force there installation [Smile]

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 02-18-2004, 10:02 PM:

Wow, those pics sure are a sad commentary of better times long gone....

>>> Phil

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 02-18-2004, 10:34 PM:

"Back when all the green slimes up here got pitched into lake ontario"

Amazing idea and hilarious if you think about it. They are the same color as the lake so they'll never ever be seen let alone found unless one of Bob Ballards sonar laden submersibles see all those sunken disks and mistakes them for sunken UFO's! Oooniooops!
I've also got to wonder if there are any of those in the Chicago river......

Mark @ CLACO

P.S. I never did look in the bottom of the Christie 4kw console to see if there were extra weights up front to keep it from falling over backwards......