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Topic: 9,5 at Argenteuil
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Dominique De Bast
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From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013
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posted February 06, 2016 12:44 PM
The Film Fair that was held at Argenteuil (Paris) saw a good representation of the gauge.
As usual, the French Club had a table. I had interesting chats with several people this year (as I stayed longer), especially with the gentleman in the middle of the picture, the club's projectionnist, who showed me pictures of a 9,5 stripping machines he built.
I didn't dare to ask for the price :-) The seller showed the Inside of this wonderful machine to someone else and said :"even there it's in gold" ( and he showed yellow pieces)
Classical Pathé Baby cartriges. At the rear ot the picture, a box with 9,5 films. The green things (I should have picture that part as well) are dvds transfers of the titles sold (Don't ask me why the seller sells a dvd transfer).
Unlike everybody first thought, the small Pathé boxes are not bulbs but close up lenses. The seller has a lot of them. He says he also has any spare of any Pathé Baby model.
I bought this beautiful 9,5 viewer. Works perfectly but has a very dark picture. I improved it by adjusting the filament postition but it is still dark ; I should maybe have the bulb replaced by a more powerfull one but then all the system has to be changed as there is no more powerfull bulbs of the same model.
The 6 volts 11 watts bulb.
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Dominique
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Dominique De Bast
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From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013
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posted February 17, 2016 04:45 PM
I talked with Célestin, the French cine reparator about the fact that my viewer had a poor lightening. He told me that it was originally not bright but that the mirrors had to be cleaned to improve it. So, I opened the viewer in order to follow the advise. I didn't find the mirrors dirty, just a very little dusty, not enough in my opinion to dark the picture very much. As I had opened the machine, I did the cleaning and doing that I had my eyes attracted by what is called in French a "cavalier" (Google would probably translate that by horseman), a piece that set an electrical apparatus on a voltage. And that "cavalier" was set on 220 volts (the other selection possibility was 110). So I was not sure if I had to trust that indication or the sticker on the rear of the viewer that says "120 volts" (120, not 110). After some hesitations, I decided to take the plunge and tried on 220 volts. Nothing exploded and, as one can imagine, the picture has now a "normal" brightness. I'm still not sure I'm not overheating thingss so I didn't let the light on too long.
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Dominique
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one day I'd like to go to a fair or market just for film and related things ...
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