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Kevin Faulkner
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From: Essex UK
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- posted September 30, 2005 04:11 PM      Profile for Kevin Faulkner         Edit/Delete Post 
Even being moderator I'm not sure if this is in the right forum....but here goes.

I got us a Kitten about 3 months a go and when ever I have film out he is there like a shot. He likes to try to catch the leaders in his paws if I allow them to dangle.

Anyway I was in the middle of a repair to a GS recently and turned my back for a few seconds to get my camera to enable me to take a pic of a particular part on the machine. I was checking out the optical playback on this machine so it was running. When I turned round this is what I saw:

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"My claws are better than that mechanical thing!"
I train them young [Big Grin]

Kev [Smile]

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Alan Rik
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- posted September 30, 2005 04:43 PM      Profile for Alan Rik   Email Alan Rik   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Hey the film reel is about the same size as his head! [Smile]
Cute little guy... maybe you can send him here and he can use his paws to freely spin my GS take up reel...then I wont have to fix mine!

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Kevin Faulkner
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- posted September 30, 2005 05:39 PM      Profile for Kevin Faulkner         Edit/Delete Post 
Hi Rik, Yes he is cute.....most of the time. Needless to say he was removed fairly sharply after taking this pic.

Kev.

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Jan Bister
Darth 8mm

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From: Ohio, USA
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- posted September 30, 2005 07:07 PM      Profile for Jan Bister   Email Jan Bister   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Adorable. I just set this picture as my desktop wallpaper, I like it that much. [Smile]

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Call me Phoenix. *dusts off the ashes*

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Barry Attwood
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Enfield, U.K.
Registered: Aug 2003

- posted October 01, 2005 02:46 AM      Profile for Barry Attwood   Email Barry Attwood   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Kev,

Brilliant picture, but what's the kittens name, you never said?

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Stuart Fyvie
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From: Amersham
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- posted October 01, 2005 03:35 AM      Profile for Stuart Fyvie   Email Stuart Fyvie   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
It would have to be 'Elmo'........

Stuart

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Kevin Faulkner
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From: Essex UK
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- posted October 01, 2005 05:22 AM      Profile for Kevin Faulkner         Edit/Delete Post 
Its Fudge. But he does get called a few other names [Big Grin] as you can imagine at 6 months he gets up to all sorts of mischief [Smile]
I didnt think of using that as a desktop pic, thanks for the idea. Jan, just mailed you a high res copy for your desktop.

Kev [Smile]

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Jan Bister
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- posted October 01, 2005 09:02 AM      Profile for Jan Bister   Email Jan Bister   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Kev,

much appreciated, thanks for the email. Changing the wallpaper for the high-res version was like going from VHS to super-8. [Big Grin]

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Kevin Faulkner
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From: Essex UK
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- posted October 01, 2005 10:21 AM      Profile for Kevin Faulkner         Edit/Delete Post 
Your welcome. [Smile]

Kev
[Smile]

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Tom Photiou
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- posted October 01, 2005 01:10 PM      Profile for Tom Photiou     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Cool [Cool]
Is he coming to the 50th [Big Grin]
Maybe this is the purrfect projected imaged. [Big Grin]

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Craig Hamilton
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From: Luton
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- posted October 01, 2005 02:49 PM      Profile for Craig Hamilton     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Kev, what’s your long term ambition for Fudge? A replacement for the MGM lion [Big Grin]

Craig

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Tony Milman
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- posted October 02, 2005 11:51 AM      Profile for Tony Milman   Author's Homepage   Email Tony Milman   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Kev,

You will have animal rights and the cat protection league after you if it is proven that he is holding a rag soaked with film renew in his paw. Worse still if it was a certain film cleaner by a UK manufacturer-his paw would certainly curl, shrivel and drop off!

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Kevin Faulkner
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- posted October 02, 2005 12:07 PM      Profile for Kevin Faulkner         Edit/Delete Post 
That made me smile Tony, but hey! that's a great idea. I will start training him right away. Now where's that cloth and WD40 [Wink]

Kev.

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GS1200 Xenon with Elmo 1.0...great combo along with a 16-CL Xenon for that super bright white light.

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Jan Bister
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- posted October 02, 2005 12:23 PM      Profile for Jan Bister   Email Jan Bister   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I hope he's declawed, lest you want emulsion scratches on your freshly cleaned film... [Eek!]

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Kevin Faulkner
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- posted October 03, 2005 07:12 AM      Profile for Kevin Faulkner         Edit/Delete Post 
Uses his claws to check for damaged sprocket holes [Big Grin]

Kev. [Smile]

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GS1200 Xenon with Elmo 1.0...great combo along with a 16-CL Xenon for that super bright white light.

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Douglas Meltzer
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From: New York, NY, USA
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- posted October 03, 2005 10:38 AM      Profile for Douglas Meltzer   Email Douglas Meltzer   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I believe the caption for this photo is "Hmmmm....the rewind motor assembly's torque is insufficient. Need to change the wire position from 3V to 4V terminal on the transformer. Could someone pick up some tuna?"

Doug

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I think there's room for just one more film.....

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Gary Crawford
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From: Manassas, VA. USA
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- posted October 03, 2005 10:56 AM      Profile for Gary Crawford     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I've told this cat related film story before on here, but just in case. I'm screening a regular 8 sound film for a few friends. We are in the screening room....the film is running in the booth...things are going swimmingly.....then the projected image begins to tilt ...and before I can get to it, the entire image has disappeared out of sight....and the projector had fallen off the pedestal and hit the ground. One of our cats had gotten up there , got tangled in the power cord and pulled the fairly lightweight Eumig 810 right over and off the pedastal. The miracle ......the machine was still running when it hit the floor on it's backside....bulb still on, sound still on . And after a few minutes to check everything out, the projector was up on the pedestal again and running again , taking up right where the film left off.....the film spools stayed on the arms....and everything worked...and still works fine. The cat must have been scared by it all . He has never ventured up there again.
You can't imagine the sinking feeling in the pit of the stomach..the wave of chills that went down my spine as I watched helplessly as the projected picture tilted 45 degrees to the right...and then out of sight. True witness,however, to the toughness of the Eumig machines.

Can you imagine what that what have done to GS1200? I shudder to think of it.

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Douglas Meltzer
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- posted October 03, 2005 02:35 PM      Profile for Douglas Meltzer   Email Douglas Meltzer   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Gary,

Great story! I think your kitty would've hung itself if that was a GS. Those monsters are too damn heavy!

Doug

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I think there's room for just one more film.....

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Jan Bister
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- posted October 03, 2005 10:43 PM      Profile for Jan Bister   Email Jan Bister   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Either way, I'm glad kitty didn't actually get hit by the thing falling! [Eek!] [Smile]

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