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Posted by Bill Carter (Member # 156) on 06-28-2004, 03:35 PM:

Anybody know who currently handles Tokiwa projector parts in America for the current model line?

No emergency, I'm just looking for basic items like factory-made aperture plates, belts and stuff.

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 06-28-2004, 06:46 PM:

Towkia was originally handled by LP associates in Hollywood. I believe LP is still in buisness so give them a try. Other then them importing directly from Japan is abaout your only choice... and not all that difficult to do either. The big Towkia projector is a very well made machine.

Mark @ CLACO

Posted by Bill Carter (Member # 156) on 06-29-2004, 01:17 AM:

Thanks, Mark. I'll try LP.

Yes, I like the Tokiwas. I have a model TSR at home, and I take it out for an occasional "Road Show". It's very well built, and has never given me the least bit of trouble.

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 06-29-2004, 01:46 AM:

For a while ICECO was importing Tokiwa so you may want to give Steve Kramms a call

Posted by Michael Barry (Member # 237) on 06-29-2004, 01:50 AM:

My first job was with a Tokiwa T-60 portable. I have never seen a 'big' Tokiwa, but the T-60 gives me nightmares just thinking about it. Of course, that had more to do with almost everything else surrounding the projector than the projector itself (the building, the staff, the installation of them, etc).

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 06-29-2004, 09:43 AM:

"but the T-60 gives me nightmares just thinking about it."

You can say thata again! The T-60 is just about the worst projector ever devised... I used to own one years ago.
Mark

Posted by Richard Fowler (Member # 893) on 06-29-2004, 01:58 PM:

Both Leonard Pincus and Steve Krams can be of help. We converted several T-60 to red laser a few years ago. Compared to other existing portables, image and sound is good, film life is another story [Wink]

Posted by Frank Angel (Member # 248) on 07-02-2004, 06:19 AM:

I came across a booth with these years ago....all I had ever run up till then was Simplex and Centurys, and when I first turned this projector on, I immediately turned it off because I thought something surely had to be drastically wrong. It sounded louder than a coffee grinder. And I though, anything that SOUNDS like a GRINDER of any kind can't be good for film. It ran the couple of shows I was called in to do, but I can't imagine how that film could last even a week grunging thru that thing.

Posted by Bill Carter (Member # 156) on 07-02-2004, 10:44 AM:

I've never seen or used one of the Tokiwa portables. The TSR model is a full-sized theater machine.