8mm Forum: What does it do?

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Posted by Steven J Kirk (Member # 1135) on April 05, 2016, 12:22 PM:

That is the question...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cine-film-editor-PERFECTONE-RAPIMAG-85775-reel-SEQUENCIAL-SHAFT-ANGLE-ENCODER/141950201974?_trksid=p2045573.c100034.m2102&_trkparms=aid%3D555012%26algo%3D PW.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D35951%26meid%3D726da3c72f874acc962dade873360e5a%26pid%3D100034%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D331821574778

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on April 05, 2016, 12:25 PM:

What the ... [Eek!]

Posted by Tommy Woods (Member # 2437) on April 05, 2016, 12:57 PM:

looks like an audio editor to me.

Posted by Shawn Langrick (Member # 4993) on April 05, 2016, 10:35 PM:

This looks like a part of the Perfectone Rapimag Sepmag system used by the BBC Pebble Mill Studios, as seen on this page: http://www.pebblemill.org/blog/dubbing-theatre-photos-by-peter-poole/

And on page 4 of this BBC Engineering newsletter is a description of how it was used: http://www.bbceng.info/Eng_Inf/EngInf_19.pdf

Posted by Brian Fretwell (Member # 4302) on April 06, 2016, 06:15 AM:

When I look at that Ebay item it has a Rexette striper as a suggested purchase in the box under this. I remember going to Balfore Mews (their address) to buy stripe and cement. It looked like an engineering workshop under a railway arch. There's nothing like buying from the real manufacturer, is there?

Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on April 06, 2016, 06:28 AM:

It's a flux capacitor!

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