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Author Topic: Marble 35mm splicers Neil Hunter Film Handler Posts: 74 From: Salisbury, NC, USA Registered: Oct 2001 posted 12-14-2001 08:37 PM                     Has anyone here ever worked with Marble 35mm splicers? I think they are made of aluminum, they feel like a toy compared to the Neumade 35mm splicers I used to work with. Is there a way I can make these work properly? Also, I am having trouble with one of them at the moment. I can't get the guillotine blade assembly to align properly when I close the jaws. Does anyone have any tips on this? Thanks.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-14-2001 10:14 PM                     If it is the one that is a creamy white colour they are a piece of junk Throw them out and get a real CIR as they will never work right  |  IP: Logged Michael West Film Handler Posts: 67 From: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Registered: Apr 2000 posted 12-15-2001 12:27 AM                        unfortunately it is all we use now, we will not be getting any thing else (unless i purchase my own - food for thought) so any advice to make "this piece of junk" work better would be greatly appreciated.  |  IP: Logged Neil Hunter Film Handler Posts: 74 From: Salisbury, NC, USA Registered: Oct 2001 posted 12-15-2001 01:45 PM                     Gordon, this is the one with the creamy white color. It feels like such a toy to me now. There is one at my theater I was going to tweak out and make it cut nicely so I could use just that one so I would know that my splices will be good, but it is still in pieces at the moment. The company I work for decided to buy these splicers when they opened this theater, I am not sure why they chose them.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-15-2001 02:31 PM                     They were chosen because they are the cheapest There is a circuit I service that uses them because they felt they had too many good ones being broken Son I bring my CIR with me to do my loops as what they have wouldn't work  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 12-16-2001 09:43 AM                     I have an old Guillotine splicer and a nearly new Marble that was given to us by the owner of a closed theatre. The Guillotine is at least 30 years old and looks kind of junky beside the Marble but it works which the Marble cannot be made to do, even with new blades and a lot of profanity.  |  IP: Logged

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