8mm Forum: This Can't Be Right.....

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Posted by Chip Gelmini (Member # 44) on 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.....

Posted by Dan Lail (Member # 18) on June 20, 2008, 12:02 AM:

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

Posted by Kevin Faulkner (Member # 6) on June 20, 2008, 06:59 AM:

I dont see anything [Frown]

Kev.

Posted by David Pannell (Member # 300) on 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.

Posted by Sam J. Clarke (Member # 1157) on 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

Posted by Chip Gelmini (Member # 44) on 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

Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on 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.

Posted by John Davis (Member # 1184) on 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)

Posted by Jean-Marc Toussaint (Member # 270) on 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]

Posted by John Davis (Member # 1184) on 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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