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Tom Photiou
Film God
Posts: 4837
From: Plymouth U.K
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted September 30, 2015 01:59 PM
I dont want to drone on but, ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Here is my very last ever request on behalf of Phil at CHC.
If you have read the newest magazine you will see inside the front cover that he has once again called for collectors to try and do an article.
Without boring you all, (this thread title usually gets a max of 6 responses), but on all three forums there are people doing just what he is asking us to do for the pages, every day many of collector in all gauges sit in front of a keyboard and do items on here, so why not do it for the magazine.
Not all readers have a PC so some of the great tips, projector repair guides, projector reviews, film reviews and story's in fact everything would be welcome by many.
With the invention of the PC you dont have to dedicate hours every night, you can do it on a word document and do a few minutes a night and save it bit by bit, there is no excuse.
There is only so many times you can read a film review or how a collector got into collecting, What CHC wants is more meaty items, projector mods or repair guides, its all on here but not in the book. With cheap digital cameras repair and service guides can be photographed in pixel perfect quality.
I will copy this onto the other two forums and promise not to ask again, I will also post Phil on this item so he can see my request on the magazines behalf, that way he will be sure that his message is out loud and clear, however, if in the future Philip stops the mag due to lack of collectors input i will be on to say i told you so, please lets not let that happen. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
BTW, thank to those who have contributed, ![[Smile]](smile.gif) I received mine today and its great & i like looking forward to it.
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Andrew Woodcock
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Posts: 7477
From: Manchester Uk
Registered: Aug 2012
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posted October 02, 2015 02:30 AM
It's a funny thing to me when I see the words fully serviced regarding projectors and the likes.
It always makes me think of cars and that nonsense tick box exercise that they do for the most part when you take your vehicle into a main dealer for its first 3 years of its life.
Ok so they change your oil and maybe the odd filter. They may even go around measuring your tyre depth and telling you where your fluid levels are at.
They will valet it, spray some nice smelling dashboard surfactant and even give you a free air freshener dangling from your mirror with their logo and telephone number on it. But that's it.
The point here that I'm making is that if you actually dissect what you've actually had done here with your less than 36 month old pride and joy, to actually make the thing run for another year, it amounts to very little.
You can drive off in the sunset, hit the latest developing sink hole somewhere in Manchester and before you know it you've damaged your (newly measured for remaining tread) tyre, buckled your front alloy, destroyed a track rod end or a lower wishbone ball joint and all the polishing they gave your car during the valet was a complete and utter waste of time, money and effort!
You now have far more concerning issues surrounding your pride and joy then you would've ever had if you hadn't bothered going for that "essential" service at 36k miles!
It's pretty much the same with all machines, including our projectors. You can oil them, grease them, change their drive belts...you can even fit them with a new " headlamp ",but all of this is just superficial everyday stuff that we could and probably should be doing ourselves as we go anyway.
The same projector that has just returned from said service engineer can then, just like the car above, develop some catastrophic electro mechanical failure that quite frankly, blows any routine service work it may have just had, completely out of the water.
There really isn't any magic wand that will guarantee that your cinematography piece can survive one day longer than the next man's based on how often it's oiled, greased or indeed how many drive belts you may care to fit.
The secret for the car, projector, washing machine, or indeed any machine, is simply to do all of the things that if it were baby screaming out at you, would make it stop crying.
Sure do all the regular service stuff,even polish it as often as you like, but as and when a fault develops...which even with all of the above routinely carried out, it will!
You then have to use logic, TLC and all of your skills to find the fault, rectify it,ensure nothing but the faulty part or component is disturbed and do all that you can to prevent the same fault reoccurring any time soon by putting everything back just as the designers intended it to go.
If you successfully do all of these things as when required to do so, in accordance with whatever machine requires your particular attention on that particular hour of the day, whatever machine you happen to have your head in that day, will more than likely run very well indeed for a very long time, where that particular fault is concerned. Then await the next one.
One thing you learn when you maintain machinery on almost a daily basis, is that no two are ever the same and no matter how well built originally, or how well you operate it, not too long in the future, something Will go wrong..it's just the nature of the beast unfortunately.
Some more often than others it has to be said!
[ October 02, 2015, 03:36 AM: Message edited by: Andrew Woodcock ]
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Andrew Woodcock
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Posts: 7477
From: Manchester Uk
Registered: Aug 2012
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posted October 02, 2015 11:20 AM
And your late father was bang on there then Lee!
Well apart from fluid levels and oil changes and all the things you are supposed to do on daily basis anyhow.
Might I just add an often frequently overlooked point in projector "servicing".
If you ever happen to read the vast majority of owner handbooks right through to the "care and maintenance" section, typically right at the very end,
The vast vast majority of projectors only expect you and indeed recommend you to, only ever maintain our precious machines with the operator side covers removed.
In other words, never should we as consumers, be having to remove the rear cover to maintain any of our machines.
The things we are recommended to do is
1/ clean the film path, in particular the gate and the magnetic sound head.
2/ clean the lens
3/ change the lamp(s)
That is pretty much it!
All bearings are described as "non serviceable"
No drive belts should ever need changing
No lubrication beyond what the manufacturer gave it at the factory should ever be necessary.
Maybe some older 16mm require a little but generally all 80's and 70's Super 8 machines say the same things in the handbook. Even the better most expensive machines.
In theory they should never need any parts ever changing for the length of the units serviceable life, or so they tell us.
I don't suppose they ever envisioned anyone would still be using one half a century later though!
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