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Paul Adsett
Film God

Posts: 5003
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted November 19, 2007 03:54 PM

Every so often, when I am about half way through viewing a film on the GS1200, there is a loud crash at the back of the room and a 1200ft reel rolls across the entire 22ft length of my home screening room! Forgot to flip that front reel retainer again! [Mad]

How often has this happened to you, and does anyone have a foolproof procedure for avoiding this?

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Mike Peckham
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1461
From: West Sussex, UK.
Registered: Jun 2003

posted November 19, 2007 04:03 PM

It happened to me just yesterday afternoon during my solitary cine fest, for me though it wasn't the take up but my newly cleaned reel 2 of Star Trek the Movie which crashed onto the floor and rolled out across the sitting room carpet. [Mad]

It usually happens to me after I have been using the Sankyo and gotten out of the habbit of clicking the retaining clip across.

So far I don't have a fail safe way of remembering to flip the clip over...

Mike [Roll Eyes]

PS: This is something Elmo would surely have changed about the GS 1200 if it had continued in production?

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Dan Lail
Film God