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Chip Gelmini
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1733
From: Brooksville, FL
Registered: Jun 2003

posted June 19, 2008 11:24 PM

Am I seeing things here......

Should be a picture of a projector that doesn't look quite as it should.....

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Dan Lail
Film God

Posts: 2110
From: Loganville, Georgia, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted June 20, 2008 12:02 AM

Chip, I don't see a picture only a little red X.

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Kevin Faulkner
Film God

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From: Essex UK
Registered: Jun 2003

posted June 20, 2008 06:59 AM

I dont see anything [Frown]

Kev.

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David Pannell
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Horsham, West Sussex, UK
Registered: Nov 2004

posted June 20, 2008 07:08 AM

Neither do I.

I even 'right clicked' on the red cross to bring up 'show picture' but still nothing.

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Sam J. Clarke
Junior
Posts: 28
From: Newcastle, England
Registered: May 2008

posted June 20, 2008 08:09 AM

When I looked at the image, it says "500 Internal Server Error" which means something is wrong with the image software. [Frown]

Sam

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Chip Gelmini
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1733
From: Brooksville, FL
Registered: Jun 2003

posted June 20, 2008 09:14 AM

I have never seen this before. Suggests a projector with TWO elevation knobs?

There's something wrong with the second picture.....

http://cgi.ebay.com/Bell-Howell-258 5-16mm-Film-Projector_W0QQitemZ280237597629QQihZ018QQcategoryZ15254QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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Maurice Leakey
Film God

Posts: 5895
From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted June 20, 2008 11:33 AM

You don't always want to tilt up.

There was a very famous 1940s projector that was used a lot by the British Forces. It was the GB L516. It tilted up but had to be held whilst the two sliding feet were locked. It was something of a three-handed job!

I had one for years and also had an accessory for it called a "Tilt Frame." This had four feet on the bottom of a hinging frame which was a little larger than the base of the projector. There was a ledge at one end to stop the projector sliding off.

The frame had a long threaded screw coupled to a turning handle. The beauty of this "Tilt Frame" was that the projector could sit on it with the knob towards the screen and it was tilted up.

If the frame was reversed (with the handle at the back) the projector tilted down.

In a lot of service installations tilting down was often more common than tilting up.

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John Davis
Master Film Handler

Posts: 286
From: Dunfermline, Fife, UK
Registered: Jun 2008

posted June 20, 2008 01:18 PM

I'm a newbie (in fact I 've unsuccessfully sent a reply to this post already!)
I suspect the right hand picture has been reversed, for reasons best known to the vendor and that the projector only has a front elevating knob (using the white labels on the top as a guide - both views have the labels nearest to the viewer)

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Jean-Marc Toussaint
Film God

Posts: 2392
From: France
Registered: Oct 2004

posted June 20, 2008 02:03 PM

John, welcome to the forum. And you're right, the image's been reversed.

Now one can read the numbers (223757) [Wink]

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John Davis
Master Film Handler

Posts: 286
From: Dunfermline, Fife, UK
Registered: Jun 2008

posted June 20, 2008 03:08 PM

Hi Jean-Marc,
thanks for the welcome, it's much appreciated.
I'm sure like most of the guys on the Forum, I've got one of these 16mm B+H 'beasts'. In fact if it wasn't for lugging projectors like these I'd get no exercise at all.

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