What equipment am I missing?

[Frank Raia]

Just for fun, am I missing any equipment that would add to the total cinema projection experience?
I have a simplex pr1014 projector
Simplex 5 star sound head with bacp red reader
Cinemaccanica Vertical lamphouse, irem rectifier
Dolby cp500 with srd, analog input card and crossover card
Bacp srd reader
Dts-6d and reader
Sdds dfp-d3000 and reader
Dolby sa10
Cm-60 booth monitor
Kelmar cleaner
Ta-10 automation
Super platter
Kelmar do user
Split reels, 24" reels, house reels
Plenty of lenses, even 3d lens
just found wrap detector
and even a focusing scope! IMG_20260529_181131.jpg IMG_20260529_181116.jpg

[Frank Cox]

What about a sound system and a screen?

[Phillip Grace]

Oil Can? .... And drip tray?

[Phillip Grace]

Piece of glass. Old gate runner. Single edge razor blade. Scissors. Film Cement (fresh). Brush.

[Chris Wehrman]

A remote fader for the CP500?

[Frank Raia]

A remote fader for the CP500?

I wish I could find one that wasnt worth an ounce of gold!!

[Frank Raia]

I do need a cinema light dimmer !!

[Chris Wehrman]

Make one... May not be fancy with a readout, but would get you by and something to tinker with.

[Josh Jones]

For house light control, I went the Shelly route with the small dimmers and a 4 input module. I later added two channels of RGBW dimming for LED tape, one as a curtain warmer and the other as wall wash around the room.

https://us.shelly.com/products/shelly-dimmer-gen4

https://us.shelly.com/products/shelly-plus-rgbw-pm

https://us.shelly.com/products/shelly-plus-i4-dc

I'm using LED flush mount lights in the ceiling. The dimming isn't perfect like incandescent, but the room stays cool, and I can leave the lights on and not worry about the power consumption. I like the shelly stuff because its fairly cheap, and will run completely autonomous from the internet. Any device that can do http can control the dimmers and such with simple one line scripts.

The scene changes are fired from the homebrew automation, and also straight from the cue detector, an FM-35.

If you already have a TA-10, you should pair it with an FM35 cue detector failsafe combination. It gives you seven different cues to control things. I have a bunch of them brand new. Let me know if your interested.

[John Thomas]

trash can or cardboard box with "Film only!" written in sharpie on it

[Martin McCaffery]

Bucket for carbon arc drippings

[Frank Raia]

Josh, I am going to look into those controllers. I have a kelmar fail safe with 2 cue detectors. Right now I only use one detector. I am curious about the FM35

[Frank Raia]

Chris any updates on your platter?

[Frank Raia]

I guess I could add a slide projector. Only problem is I don't see many cinema advert slides anywhere

[Chris Wehrman]

Frank,
I highly recommend the FM35!! I thought you already had one. As for house lighting, another option is DMX controlled fixtures or dimmers. I use a small DMX player that can recall 8 different scenes via rs232 or contact closure. I have it in my rack controlled via rs232, it's been 100% reliable for me.
Here's a link to it.

https://www.springtree.net/product/wall-station-sm-8if-rs-232-to-dmx/

The platter is done and tested with trailers. Still working on the mut, need to fabricate a replacement top for it. Then start testing with fully loaded decks. I have an old thread started about the rebuild, I need to update it.